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  1. Recently, individualized or personalized medicine (PM) has become a buzz word in the academic as well as public debate surrounding health care. However, PM lacks a clear definition and is open to interpretatio...

    Authors: Sebastian Schleidgen, Corinna Klingler, Teresa Bertram, Wolf H Rogowski and Georg Marckmann

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:55

    Content type: Research article

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  2. Information and communication technologies are becoming an integral part of medical practice, research and administration and their use will grow as telemedicine and electronic medical record use become part o...

    Authors: Caron Jack, Yashik Singh and Maurice Mars

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14(Suppl 1):S8

    Content type: Research article

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  3. Every year, research specimens are shipped from one institution to another as well as across national boundaries. A significant proportion of specimens move from poor to rich countries. Concerns are always rai...

    Authors: Takafira Mduluza, Nicholas Midzi, Donold Duruza and Paul Ndebele

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14(Suppl 1):S7

    Content type: Research article

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  4. The issue of stigma is very important in the battle against HIV/AIDS in Africa since it may affect patient attendance at healthcare centres for obtaining antiretroviral (ARV) medications and regular medical ch...

    Authors: Temitayo O Famoroti, Lucy Fernandes and Sylvester C Chima

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14(Suppl 1):S6

    Content type: Research article

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  5. Doctor and healthcare worker (HCW) strikes are a global phenomenon with the potential to negatively impact on the quality of healthcare services and the doctor-patient relationship. Strikes are a legitimate de...

    Authors: Sylvester C Chima

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14(Suppl 1):S5

    Content type: Research article

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  6. Controversies still exists within the research fraternity on the form and level of incentives, compensation and reimbursement to study participants in resource-constrained settings. While most research activit...

    Authors: Takafira Mduluza, Nicholas Midzi, Donold Duruza and Paul Ndebele

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14(Suppl 1):S4

    Content type: Research article

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  7. Informed consent is a legal and ethical doctrine derived from the principle of respect for autonomy. Generally two rights derived from autonomy are accorded legal protection. The constitutional right to bodily...

    Authors: Sylvester C Chima

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14(Suppl 1):S3

    Content type: Research article

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  8. This paper addresses the past, present and future aspects of African leadership and organizational ethics that have, are and will be key for any organization to sustain its systems and structures. Organization...

    Authors: Jude Mutuku Mathooko

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14(Suppl 1):S2

    Content type: Research article

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  9. The 3rd Pan-African Ethics Human Rights and Medical Law (3rd EHRML) conference was held in Johannesburg on July 7, 2013, as part of the Africa Health Congress. The conference brought together bioethicists, resear...

    Authors: Sylvester C Chima, Takafira Mduluza and Julius Kipkemboi

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14(Suppl 1):S1

    Content type: Introduction

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  11. In clinical research scientific, legal as well as ethical aspects are important. It is well known that clinical investigators at university hospitals have to undertake their PhD-studies alongside their daily w...

    Authors: Arja Halkoaho, Mari Matveinen, Ville Leinonen, Kirsi Luoto and Tapani Keränen

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:53

    Content type: Research article

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  12. Little is known about the views of mothers when their children are invited to participate in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) investigating medicines and/or invasive procedures. Our goal was to understand mot...

    Authors: Adriana Assis Carvalho and Luciane Rezende Costa

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:52

    Content type: Research article

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  15. Psychiatric staff members have the power to decide the options that frame encounters with patients. Intentional as well as unintentional framing can have a crucial impact on patients’ opportunities to be heard...

    Authors: Veikko Pelto-Piri, Karin Engström and Ingemar Engström

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:49

    Content type: Research article

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  17. In studies publishing identifying personal information, obtaining consent is regarded as necessary, as it is impossible to ensure complete anonymity. However, current journal practices around specific points t...

    Authors: Akiko Yoshida, Yuri Dowa, Hiromi Murakami and Shinji Kosugi

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:47

    Content type: Research article

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  18. The 2006 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised recommendations for HIV testing in clinical settings contained seven specific changes to how health care facilities should provide HIV testing....

    Authors: Michael J Waxman, Roland C Merchant, M Teresa Celada and Melissa A Clark

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:46

    Content type: Research article

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  19. In 2008 UK legislation was amended to enable the use of deferred consent for paediatric emergency care (EC) trials in recognition of the practical and ethical difficulties of obtaining prospective consent in a...

    Authors: Kerry Woolfall, Lucy Frith, Carrol Gamble and Bridget Young

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:45

    Content type: Research article

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  21. With a view to addressing the moral concerns about the use of donor siblings, the Policy Statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics - Children as Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors (the Policy) has laid out t...

    Authors: Tak Kwong Chan and George Lim Tipoe

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:43

    Content type: Debate

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  22. Defensive medicine is defined as a doctor’s deviation from standard practice to reduce or prevent complaints or criticism. The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of the practice of defensiv...

    Authors: Osman Ortashi, Jaspal Virdee, Rudaina Hassan, Tomasz Mutrynowski and Fikri Abu-Zidan

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:42

    Content type: Research article

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  23. International health research in malaria-endemic settings may include screening for sickle cell disease, given the relationship between this important genetic condition and resistance to malaria, generating qu...

    Authors: Vicki Marsh, Francis Kombe, Raymond Fitzpatrick, Thomas N Williams, Michael Parker and Sassy Molyneux

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:41

    Content type: Research article

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  24. Although there is extensive information about why people participate in clinical trials, studies are largely based on quantitative evidence and typically focus on single conditions. Over the last decade invest...

    Authors: Anne Townsend and Susan M Cox

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:40

    Content type: Research article

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  25. In their book Spare Parts, published in 1992, Fox and Swazey criticized various aspects of organ transplantation, including the routinization of the procedure, ignorance regarding its inherent uncertainties, and ...

    Authors: Céline Durand, Andrée Duplantie, Yves Chabot, Hubert Doucet and Marie-Chantal Fortin

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:39

    Content type: Research article

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  27. Medical tourism—the practice where patients travel internationally to privately access medical care—may limit patients’ regular physicians’ abilities to contribute to the informed decision-making process. We a...

    Authors: Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A Crooks, Rory Johnston and Shafik Dharamsi

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:37

    Content type: Research article

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  29. Biological sample and data transfer within and out of Africa is steeped in controversy With the H3Africa project now aiming to establish biobanks in Africa, it is essential that there are ethical and legal gov...

    Authors: Ciara Staunton and Keymanthri Moodley

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:35

    Content type: Research article

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  31. Recruiting minorities into research studies requires special attention, particularly when studies involve “extra-vulnerable” participants with multiple vulnerabilities, e.g., pregnant women, the fetuses/neonat...

    Authors: Pornpimon Adams, Waranya Wongwit, Krisana Pengsaa, Srisin Khusmith, Wijitr Fungladda, Warissara Chaiyaphan, Chanthima Limphattharacharoen, Sukanya Prakobtham and Jaranit Kaewkungwal

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:33

    Content type: Research article

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  32. A survey on the knowledge and attitudes towards the Austrian organ donation legislation (an opt-out solution) of selected groups of the Austrian population taking into account factors such as age, gender, leve...

    Authors: Vanessa Stadlbauer, Peter Steiner, Martin Schweiger, Michael Sereinigg, Karl-Heinz Tscheliessnigg, Wolfgang Freidl and Philipp Stiegler

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:32

    Content type: Research article

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  33. 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 in...

    Authors: Adnan A Hyder, Waleed Zafar, Joseph Ali, Robert Ssekubugu, Paul Ndebele and Nancy Kass

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:31

    Content type: Research article

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  34. Efforts to improve patients’ understanding of their own medical treatments or research in which they are involved are progressing, especially with regard to informed consent procedures. We aimed to design a mu...

    Authors: Silvia Cervo, Jane Rovina, Renato Talamini, Tiziana Perin, Vincenzo Canzonieri, Paolo De Paoli and Agostino Steffan

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:30

    Content type: Research article

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  35. In resource-limited settings where healthcare services are limited and poverty is common, it is difficult to ethically conduct clinical research without providing patient-care. Therefore, integration of patien...

    Authors: Moses Laman, William Pomat, Peter Siba and Inoni Betuela

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:29

    Content type: Debate

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  36. Obtaining informed consent is a cornerstone of biomedical research, yet participants comprehension of presented information is often low. The most effective interventions to improve understanding rates have no...

    Authors: Adam Nishimura, Jantey Carey, Patricia J Erwin, Jon C Tilburt, M Hassan Murad and Jennifer B McCormick

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:28

    Content type: Research article

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  37. Photographs are commonly taken of children in medical and research contexts. With the increased availability of photographs through the internet, it is increasingly important to consider their potential for ne...

    Authors: Delan Devakumar, Helen Brotherton, Jay Halbert, Andrew Clarke, Audrey Prost and Jennifer Hall

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:27

    Content type: Research article

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  38. In recent decades, the general public has become increasingly receptive toward a legislation that allows active voluntary euthanasia (AVE). The purpose of this study was to survey the current attitude towards ...

    Authors: Willibald J Stronegger, Nathalie T Burkert, Franziska Grossschädl and Wolfgang Freidl

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:26

    Content type: Research article

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  41. On site monitoring of research is one of the most effective ways to ensure compliance during research conduct. However, it is least carried out primarily for two reasons: presumed high costs both in terms of h...

    Authors: Joseph Ochieng, Julius Ecuru, Frederick Nakwagala and Paul Kutyabami

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:23

    Content type: Research article

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  42. Ethical conflicts are arising as a result of the growing complexity of clinical care, coupled with technological advances. Most studies that have developed instruments for measuring ethical conflict base their...

    Authors: Anna Falcó-Pegueroles, Teresa Lluch-Canut and Joan Guàrdia-Olmos

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:22

    Content type: Research article

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  43. Rapid advances in high throughput genomic technologies and next generation sequencing are making medical genomic research more readily accessible and affordable, including the sequencing of patient and control...

    Authors: Galen EB Wright, Pieter GJ Koornhof, Adebowale A Adeyemo and Nicki Tiffin

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:21

    Content type: Debate

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  44. In recent years, personalized medicine (PM) has become a highly regarded line of development in medicine. Yet, it is still a relatively new field. As a consequence, the discussion of its future developments, i...

    Authors: Sebastian Schleidgen and Georg Marckmann

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:20

    Content type: Research article

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  45. Conflicts of interest affect recommendations in clinical guidelines and disclosure of such conflicts is important. However, not all conflicts of interest are disclosed. Using a public available disclosure list...

    Authors: Julie Bolette Brix Bindslev, Jeppe Schroll, Peter C Gøtzsche and Andreas Lundh

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:19

    Content type: Research article

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  48. The tissue biobanking of specific biological residual materials, which constitutes a useful resource for medical/scientific research, has raised some ethical issues, such as the need to define which kind of co...

    Authors: Luciana Caenazzo, Pamela Tozzo and Renzo Pegoraro

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:17

    Content type: Debate

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  49. Should those who work on ethics welcome or resist moves to open access publishing? This paper analyses arguments in favour and against the increasing requirement for open access publishing and considers their ...

    Authors: Michael Parker

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:16

    Content type: Commentary

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