Correction to: Regulatory, scientific, and ethical issues arising from institutional activity in one of the 90 Italian Research Ethics Committees
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The growing prevalence of health care ethics consultation (HCEC) services in the U....
Countries are increasingly devoting significant resources to creating or strengthening research ethics committees, but there has been insufficient attention...
Should those who work on ethics welcome or resist moves to open access ... discussion about the implications of open access for ethics. This is surprising given both the central role of public reason and critique...
It has come to our attention that in the original article [1] information regarding dates was omitted. The data in this study were obtained in Switzerland four years before the entering into force of the new Swis...
A decade ago, we reviewed the field of clinical ethics; assessed its progress in research, education, and ethics committees and consultation; and made predictions about ... field. In this article, we revisit clin...
The emergence of ethical concerns surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has led to an explosion of high-level ethical principles being published by a wide range of public and private organizations. However, th...
Teaching ethics in public health programmes is not routine ... more and more interested in the integration of ethics in their curricula, since public health professionals...
The formulation and implementation of national ethical regulations to protect research participants is fundamental to ethical conduct of research. Ethics education and capacity are inadequate in developing ... de...
As hospitals have grown more complex, the ethical concerns they confront have grown correspondingly complicated. Many hospitals have consequently developed health care ethics programs (HCEPs) that include far mor...
Importance of awareness of medical ethics and its integration into medical curriculum has ... knowledge, attitude, and reported practices of medical ethics among clinicians at Patan Academy of Health ... knowledg...
Confidentiality is one of the central preconditions for clinical ethics support (CES). CES cases which generate...
Clinical ethics consultations (CEC) can be complex interventions,...
Since 2010, the European Journal of Anaesthesiology has required the reporting of five items concerning ethical approval in articles describing human research: ethics committee’s name and address, chairperson’s ....
In the past decade, there has been an increase in genomic research and biobanking activities in Africa. Research initiatives such as the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Consortium are contributing ...
Translational research in medicine requires researchers to identify the steps to transfer basic scientific discoveries from laboratory benches to bedside decision-making, and eventually into clinical practice. On...
Ethics consult services are well established, but often ... to identify the barriers and perceptions of the Ethics consult service for physicians, advance practice providers...
Universities in Cameroon are playing an active part in HIV/AIDS research and much of this research is carried out by students, usually for the purpose of a dissertation/thesis. Student theses/dissertations presen...
The final sample for analysis consisted 1094 medical staff (including 523 doctors, 542 nurses, 8 pharmacologists and 21 other staff). The majority reported that their medical institutions had not established an Ethics
As Canadian global health researchers who conducted a qualitative study with adults with and without disabilities in Uganda, we obtained ethics approval from four institutional research ethics boards (two in Cana...
Many studies have been published about ethics committees and the clarifications requested about the submitted applications. In Finland, ethics committees require a separate statement on ethical ... aspects of the...
Research ethics guidelines are essential for conducting medical research....
Ethics issues in the areas of science, technology ... decades. Many countries have responded by establishing ethics committees at the national level. Identification of National Ethics Committees (NECs) in the Eas...
The aim of the study is to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices among healthcare professionals in Barbados in relation to healthcare ethics and law in an attempt to assist...
Ethics consultation is recognized as an opportunity to ... unclear, however, if the general standards of ethics consultation are applicable to the very particular...
The methodology of medical ethics during the last few decades has shifted...
Concerns have been expressed regarding the adequacy of ethics review systems in developing countries. Limited data ... regarding the structural and functional status of Research Ethics Committees (RECs) in the Mi...
What can the analysis of the evolution of a code of ethics tell us about the dental profession and ... develops it? The establishment of codes of ethics are foundational events in the social history ... serve a v...
Medical ethics deals with the ethical obligations of doctors ... of knowledge, attitude and practice regarding medical ethics among doctors in three teaching hospitals in...
The last few decades have seen the rising global acknowledgment of the importance of ethics in the conduct of health research. But research ethics committees or institutional review boards (IRBs)...
Ethics is the science of moral and ethical ... what is morally right and wrong. Healthcare ethics is seen as an integrated part of ... Healthcare professionals’ standardisation and uniformity in healthcare ethics
The COVID-19 pandemic presents significant challenges to research ethics committees (RECs) in balancing urgency of ... South Africa, an absent National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC) also left RECs withou...
Clinical Ethics Committees (CECs) are well established at ... to encourage the establishment of CECs or Clinical Ethics Consultation Services (CESs) on the continent....
It is a common ethical challenge for ambulance clinicians to care for patients with impaired decision-making capacities while assessing and determining the degree of decision-making ability and considering ethica...
Research has been an essential part of the COVID-19 pandemic response, including in Latin American (LA) countries. However, implementing research in emergency settings poses the challenge of producing valuable kn...
The increase in the volume of research conducted in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC), has brought a renewed international focus on processes for ethical conduct of research. Several programs have been initi...
In Nigeria, as in other developing countries, access to training in research ethics is limited, due to weak social,...
The theory and practice of ethics consultations (ECs) in health care are ... clear how often a recommendation is issued in ethics consultations and when and why this step...
Although clinical ethicists are becoming more prevalent in healthcare settings, their required training and education have not been clearly delineated. Most agree that training and education are important, but th...
The concept of evidence-based medicine has strongly influenced the appraisal and application of empirical information in health care decision-making. One principal characteristic of this concept is the distinctio...
This paper addresses the past, present and future aspects of African leadership and organizational ethics that have, are and will be key ... to sustain its systems and structures. Organizational ethics revolves a...
Research ethics is intertwined with and depends on building...
In Morocco, medical research ethics training was integrated into the medical curriculum ... same year, a law on medical research ethics was enacted to protect individuals participating in ... , their attitudes an...
This series of responses was commissioned to accompany the article by Singer et al, which can be found at http://​www.​biomedcentral.​com/​1472-6939/​2/​1. If you ...
There is continued need for enhanced medical ethics education across the United States. In an effort to guide medical ethics education reform, we report the first interprofessional ... examined perceived student ...
Citizen science and models for public participation in health research share normative ideals of participation, inclusion, and public and patient engagement. Academic researchers collaborate in research with memb...
Despite the implementation of codes and declarations of medical research ethics, unethical behavior is still reported among researchers ... faculties have included topics related to medical research ethics and de...
Ethical problems in everyday healthcare work emerge for many reasons and constitute threats to ethical values. If these threats are not managed appropriately, there is a risk that the patient may be inflicted wit...
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