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Correspondence
The anticipation of ethical issues that may arise with the clinical use of genomic technologies is crucial to envision their future implementation in a manner sensitive to local contexts. Yet, populations in l...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:28
Published on: 11 April 2017
Debate
The EU offers a suitable milieu for the comparison and harmonisation of healthcare across different languages, cultures, and jurisdictions (albeit with a supranational legal framework), which could provide imp...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:27
Published on: 8 April 2017
Debate
The 11 original regions for organ allocation in the United States were determined by proximity between hospitals that provided deceased donors and transplant programs. As liver transplants became more successf...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:26
Published on: 5 April 2017
Research article
Because no single person or group holds knowledge about all aspects of research, mechanisms are needed to support knowledge exchange and engagement. Expertise in the research setting necessarily includes scien...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:24
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
Smart-home technologies, comprising environmental sensors, wearables and video are attracting interest in home healthcare delivery. Development of such technology is usually justified on the basis of the techn...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:23
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
Robust technology infrastructure is needed to enable learning health care systems to improve quality, access, and cost. Such infrastructure relies on the trust and confidence of individuals to share their heal...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:25
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
Biomedical research increasingly relies on long-term studies involving use and re-use of biological samples and data stored in large repositories or “biobanks” over lengthy periods, often raising questions abo...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:22
Published on: 23 March 2017
Research article
Recent findings suggest that medical students’ moral competence decreases throughout medical school. This pilot study gives preliminary insights into the effects of two educational interventions in ethics clas...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:21
Published on: 3 March 2017
Research article
Implicit biases involve associations outside conscious awareness that lead to a negative evaluation of a person on the basis of irrelevant characteristics such as race or gender. This review examines the evide...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:19
Published on: 1 March 2017
Research article
Today, nurses are required to have knowledge and awareness concerning professional values as standards to provide safe and high-quality ethical care. Nurses’ perspective on professional values affects decision...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:20
Published on: 1 March 2017
Research article
Professional guidelines have addressed ethical dilemmas posed by a few types of nontraditional procreative arrangements (e.g., gamete donations between family members), but many questions arise regarding how p...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:18
Published on: 28 February 2017
Debate
Hip fractures are common and serious injuries in the geriatric population. Obtaining informed consent for surgery in geriatric patients can be difficult due to the high prevalence of comorbid cognitive impairm...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:17
Published on: 24 February 2017
Research article
As the implementation of new approaches and procedures of medical ethics is as complex and resource-consuming as in other fields, strategies and activities must be carefully planned to use the available means ...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:16
Published on: 23 February 2017
Debate
The fundamental determinant of death in donation after circulatory determination of death is the cessation of brain circulation and function. We therefore propose the term donation after brain circulation determi...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:15
Published on: 23 February 2017
Research article
Paediatric cancer care poses ethically difficult situations that can lead to value conflicts about what is best for the child, possibly resulting in moral distress. Research on moral distress is lacking in pae...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:14
Published on: 20 February 2017
Research article
End-of-life decision making constitutes a major challenge for bioethical deliberation and political governance in modern democracies: On the one hand, it touches upon fundamental convictions about life, death,...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:13
Published on: 17 February 2017
Research article
Advances in genetic and genomic research have introduced challenges in obtaining informed consent for research in low and middle-income settings. However, there are only few studies that have explored challeng...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:12
Published on: 15 February 2017
Debate
Over 90% of the organs transplanted in China before 2010 were procured from prisoners. Although Chinese officials announced in December 2014 that the country would completely cease using organs harvested from ...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:11
Published on: 8 February 2017
Research article
As thousands of healthy research participants are being included in small and large imaging studies, it is essential that dilemmas raised by the detection of incidental findings are adequately handled. Current...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:10
Published on: 6 February 2017
Research article
This is a study involving three HIV clinics in the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Manitoba. We sought to identify ethical issues involving health care providers and clinic clients in thes...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:9
Published on: 6 February 2017
Research article
The introduction of genomics and biobanking methodologies to the African research context has also introduced novel ways of doing science, based on values of sharing and reuse of data and samples. This shift r...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:8
Published on: 2 February 2017
Research article
Advance directives (AD) imply the promise of determining future medical treatment in case of decisional incapacity. However, clinical practice increasingly indicates that standardized ADs often fail to support...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:7
Published on: 2 February 2017
Research article
A cross-sectional study to ascertain what the Singapore population would regard as material risk in the anaesthesia consent-taking process and identify demographic factors that predict patient preferences in m...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:6
Published on: 2 February 2017
Research article
Value sensitivity – the ability to recognize value-related issues when they arise in practice – is an indispensable competence for medical practitioners to enter decision-making processes related to ethical qu...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:5
Published on: 28 January 2017
Research article
Innovations in technology have contributed to rapid changes in the way that modern biomedical research is carried out. Researchers are increasingly required to endorse adaptive and flexible approaches to accom...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:4
Published on: 25 January 2017
