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In the coming years, surrogate decision-making is expected to become highly prevalent in Japanese clinical practice. Further, there has been a recent increase in activities promoting advance care planning, whi...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:5
Egg freezing has emerged as a technology of assisted reproductive medicine that allows women to plan for the anticipated loss of fertility and hence to preserve the option to conceive with their own eggs. The ...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:4
There is a need for clearer guidance for pharmacists regarding their responsibilities when selling complementary medicines. A recently published ethical framework provides guidance regarding the specific respo...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:3
In Pakistan, drug promotion practices, ethical or unethical, have rarely been in the spotlight. We aimed to assess the perception and barriers of medical representatives (MRs) and doctors (MDs) regarding ethic...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:2
Factors that could potentially act as facilitators and barriers to successful recruitment strategies in perinatal clinical trials are not well documented. The objective was to assess lay persons’ understanding...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2021 22:1
Coping with end-of-life issues is a major challenge for governments and health systems. Despite progress in legislation, many barriers exist to its full implementation. This study is aimed at identifying these...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:126
Paternalism/overprotection limits communication between healthcare professionals and patients and does not promote shared therapeutic decision-making. In the global north, communication patterns have been regu...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:125
With growth of genomics research in Africa, concern has arisen about comprehension and adequacy of informed consent given the highly technical terms used in this field. We therefore decided to study whether th...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:124
The perception of organ donation and brain death among Syrian population has not been previously explored. The goal of this study is to evaluate the attitude and knowledge of organ donation among Syrians and t...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:123
Informed consent is an important factor in a child’s moral structure from which different types of doctor–patient relationships arise. Children’s autonomy is currently under discussion in terms of their decent...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:122
End-of-life decisions for neonates with adverse prognosis are controversial and raise ethical and legal issues. In Greece, data on physicians’ profiles, motivation, values and attitudes underlying such decisio...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:121
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:120
There has been considerable investment and strategic planning to introduce genomic testing into Australia’s public health system. As more patients’ genomic data is being held by the public health system, there...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:119
We aimed to examine the ethical concerns Singaporeans have about sharing health-data for precision medicine (PM) and identify suggestions for governance strategies. Just as Asian genomes are under-represented ...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:118
The Authors have laid out an analysis of Italian COVID-19 confirmed data and fatality rates, pointing out how a dearth of health care resources in northern regions has resulted in hard, ethically challenging d...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:117
Expanded access is the use of investigational drugs (IDs) outside of clinical trials. Generally it is performed in patients with serious and life-threatening diseases who cannot be treated satisfactorily with ...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:116
Clinical Ethics Committees (CECs) are well established at healthcare institutions in resource-rich countries. However, there is limited information on established CECs in resource poor countries, especially in...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:115
Good quality of care is dependent on nurses’ strong clinical skills and moral competencies, as well. While most nurses work with high moral standards, the moral performance of some nurses in some organizations...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:114
In Spain, there has been great effort by lawmakers to put Advance Directives (ADs) into practice since 2002. At the same time, the field of bioethics has been on the rise, a discipline that has spurred debate ...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:113
A key ethical question in genomics research relates to whether individual genetic research results should be disclosed to research participants and if so, which results are to be disclosed, by whom and when. W...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:112
An analysis of the position statements of secular US medical and surgical professional societies on physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia have not been published recently. Available statements were e...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:111
In the UK, the solidaristic character of the NHS makes it one of the most trusted public institutions. In recent years, the introduction of data-driven technologies in healthcare has opened up the space for co...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:110
Decision making when patients ask a dentist for fee reduction is a real ethical dilemma at dental settings. The aim of this study was to evaluate how dental students and tutors think about their position for, ...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:109
Surgery for intersex infants should be delayed until individuals are able to decide for themselves, except where it is a medical necessity. In an ideal world, this single principle would suffice and such surge...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:108
The problem of wasteful clinical trials has been debated relentlessly in the medical community. To a significant extent, it is attributed to redundant trials – studies that are carried out to address questions...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:107
The Constitutional Court of South Korea declared that an abortion ban was unconstitutional on April 11, 2019. The National Health Care System will provide abortion care across the country as a formal medical s...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:106
There has been growing interest in the use of incentives to increase the uptake of health-related behaviours and achieve desired health outcomes at the individual and population level. However, the use of ince...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:105
Scientific advances have resulted in more complex medical systems, which in turn have led to an increase in the number of patient safety incidents (PSIs). In this environment, the importance of honest disclosu...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:104
In the EU, clinical assessors, rapporteurs and the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use are obliged to assess the ethical aspects of a clinical development program and include major ethical flaws in ...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:103
Genetic testing is moving from targeted investigations of monogenetic diseases to broader testing that may provide more information. For example, recent health economic studies of genetic testing for an increa...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:102
The opioid epidemic has enabled rapid and unsurpassed use of big data on people with opioid use disorder to design initiatives to battle the public health crisis, generally without adequate input from impacted...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:101
Biomedical and ethnographic studies among indigenous people are common practice in health and geographical research. Prior health research misconduct has been documented, particularly when obtaining genetic ma...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:100
Regulations on forgoing life-sustaining treatment (LST) have developed in Asian countries including Japan, Korea and Taiwan. However, other countries are relatively unaware of these due to the language barrier...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:99
The Arab population in Israel is a minority ethnic group with its own distinct cultural subgroups. Minority populations are known to underutilize genetic tests and counseling services, thereby undermining the ...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:98
Thorough information of the patient is an integral part of the process of shared decision making. We aimed to investigate if detailed information about medication may induce nocebo (or placebo) effects.
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:97
Social media has globalised compassion enabling requests for donations to spread beyond geographical boundaries. The use of social media for medical crowdfunding links people with unmet healthcare needs to cha...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:96
Human genome editing technologies offer much potential benefit. However, central to any conversation relating to the application of such technologies are certain ethical, legal, and social difficulties around ...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:95
Healthcare systems are increasingly struggling with resource constraints, given demographic changes, technological development, and citizen expectations. The aim of this article is to normatively analyze diffe...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:94
Informed consent is often cited as the “cornerstone” of research ethics. Its intent is that participants enter research voluntarily, with an understanding of what their participation entails. Despite agreement...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:93
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:92
In response to COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Uganda adopted public health measures to contain its spread in the country. Some of the initial measures included refusal to repatriate citizens studying in Chi...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:91
While community engagement is increasingly promoted in global health research to improve ethical research practice, it can sometimes coerce participation and thereby compromise ethical research. This paper see...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:90
Recent advancements in neuroscientific techniques have allowed us to make huge progress in our understanding of memories, and in turn has paved the way for new memory modification technologies (MMTs) that can ...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:89
A biobank is a structure which collects and manages biological samples and their associated data. The collected samples will then be made available for various uses. The sharing of those samples raised ethical...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:88
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats-associated (CRISPR-Cas) technology may allow for efficient and highly targeted gene editing in single-cell embryos. This possibility brings human germl...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:87
Keeping the patients well and fully informed about diagnosis, prognosis, and treatments is one of the patient’s rights in any healthcare system. Although all healthcare providers have the same viewpoint about ...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:86
Whenever South African (SA) research institutions share human biological material and associated data for health research or clinical trials they are legally compelled to have a material transfer agreement (MT...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:85
Pharmacists as the trustee of pharmacy services must adhere to ethical principles and evaluate their professionalism. Pharmacists may sometimes show different unethical behaviors in their interactions, so it i...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:84
Organ donation following brain death has become an important way of supplying organs for transplantation in many countries. This practice is less common in Iran for different reasons. Therefore, this study aim...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:83
Our human societies and certainly also (bio) medicine are more and more permeated with technology. There seems to be an increasing awareness among bioethicists that an effective and comprehensive approach to e...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2020 21:81
Citation Impact
2.451 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.88 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.705 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.15 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
715,939 downloads
Social Media Impact
3554 mentions