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  1. Millions of people undergo displacement in the world. Internally displaced people (IDP) are especially vulnerable as they are not protected by special legislation in contrast to other migrants. Research conduc...

    Authors: Chesmal Siriwardhana, Anushka Adikari, Kaushalya Jayaweera and Athula Sumathipala

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:13

    Content type: Correspondence

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  2. Audio-visual teleconsultation is expected to help home-based palliative patients, hospital-based palliative care professionals, and family physicians to jointly design better, pro-active care. Consensual knowl...

    Authors: Jelle van Gurp, Martine van Selm, Evert van Leeuwen and Jeroen Hasselaar

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:12

    Content type: Research article

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  3. The Netherlands is one of the few countries where euthanasia is legal under strict conditions. This study investigates whether Dutch newspaper articles use the term ‘euthanasia’ according to the legal definiti...

    Authors: Judith AC Rietjens, Natasja JH Raijmakers, Pauline SC Kouwenhoven, Clive Seale, Ghislaine JMW van Thiel, Margo Trappenburg, Johannes JM van Delden and Agnes van der Heide

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:11

    Content type: Research article

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  4. The global expansion of biobanks has led to a range of bioethical concerns related to consent, privacy, control, ownership, and disclosure. As an opportunity to engage broader audiences on these concerns, bioe...

    Authors: Matthew C Nisbet and Declan Fahy

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:10

    Content type: Research article

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  5. A baby hatch called the “Stork’s Cradle” has been in place at Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto City, Japan, since May 10, 2007. Babyklappes were first established in Germany in 2000, and there are currently more tha...

    Authors: Atsushi Asai and Hiroko Ishimoto

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:9

    Content type: Debate

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  6. To evaluate the effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention in improving emergency department (ED) patient privacy and satisfaction in the crowded ED setting.

    Authors: Yen-Ko Lin, Wei-Che Lee, Liang-Chi Kuo, Yuan-Chia Cheng, Chia-Ju Lin, Hsing-Lin Lin, Chao-Wen Chen and Tsung-Ying Lin

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:8

    Content type: Research article

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  7. To identify motivational factors linked to child health status that affected the likelihood of parents’ allowing their child to participate in pediatric research.

    Authors: Jérémy Vanhelst, Ludovic Hardy, Dina Bert, Stéphane Duhem, Stéphanie Coopman, Christian Libersa, Dominique Deplanque, Frédéric Gottrand and Laurent Béghin

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:7

    Content type: Research article

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  9. Obtaining a research participant’s voluntary and informed consent is the bedrock of sound ethics practice. Greater inclusion of children in research has led to questions about how paediatric consent operates i...

    Authors: Edward S Dove, Denise Avard, Lee Black and Bartha M Knoppers

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:5

    Content type: Research article

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  12. Waiving parent permission can be an option in some epidemiological and social research with adolescents. However, exemptions have not been uniformly considered or applied. Our aim is to critically assess the d...

    Authors: Miguel Ruiz-Canela, Cristina Lopez-del Burgo, Silvia Carlos, Maria Calatrava, Carlos Beltramo, Alfonso Osorio and Jokin de Irala

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:2

    Content type: Debate

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  13. 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 Afr...

    Authors: Olubunmi A Ogunrin, Temidayo O Ogundiran and Clement Adebamowo

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2013 14:1

    Content type: Research article

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  14. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is expected to help find the elusive, causative genetic defects associated with Bipolar Disorder (BD). This article identifies the importance of NGS and further analyses the so...

    Authors: Iris Jaitovich Groisman, Ghislaine Mathieu and Beatrice Godard

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:36

    Content type: Research article

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  15. Even though we are now well into the 21st century and notwithstanding all the abuse to individuals involved in clinical studies that has been documented throughout History, fundamental ethical principles conti...

    Authors: Borys Alberto Cornejo Moreno and Gress Marissell Gómez Arteaga

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:35

    Content type: Debate

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  17. Non-therapeutic trials in which terminally ill cancer patients are asked to undergo procedures such as biopsies or venipunctures for research purposes, have become increasingly important to learn more about ho...

    Authors: Erika Kleiderman, Denise Avard, Lee Black, Zuanel Diaz, Caroline Rousseau and Bartha Maria Knoppers

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:33

    Content type: Research article

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  18. Posthumous organ procurement is hindered by the consenting process. Several consenting systems have been proposed. There is limited information on public relative attitudes towards various consenting systems, ...

    Authors: Muhammad M Hammami, Hunaida M Abdulhameed, Kristine A Concepcion, Abdullah Eissa, Sumaya Hammami, Hala Amer, Abdelraheem Ahmed and Eman Al-Gaai

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:32

    Content type: Research article

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  19. Following passage of the Patient Self Determination Act in 1990, health care institutions that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding are required to inform patients of their right to make their health care pre...

    Authors: Christopher M Burkle, Paul S Mueller, Keith M Swetz, C Christopher Hook and Mark T Keegan

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:31

    Content type: Research article

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  21. The intervention reported in this paper was a follow up to an empirical study conducted in Malawi with the aim of assessing trial participants’ understanding of randomisation, double-blinding and placebo use. ...

    Authors: Paul M Ndebele, Douglas Wassenaar, Esther Munalula and Francis Masiye

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:29

    Content type: Research article

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  22. Continued advances in human microbiome research and technologies raise a number of ethical, legal, and social challenges. These challenges are associated not only with the conduct of the research, but also wit...

    Authors: Melody J Slashinski, Sheryl A McCurdy, Laura S Achenbaum, Simon N Whitney and Amy L McGuire

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:28

    Content type: Research article

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  26. Financial relationships between physicians and industry are extensive and public reporting of industry payments to physicians is now occurring. Our objectives were to describe physician recipients of large tot...

    Authors: Susan L Norris, Haley K Holmer, Lauren A Ogden, Brittany U Burda and Rongwei Fu

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:24

    Content type: Correspondence

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  27. International collaborators face challenges in the design and implementation of ethical biomedical research. Evaluating community understanding of research and processes like informed consent may enable resear...

    Authors: Rachel Vreeman, Eunice Kamaara, Allan Kamanda, David Ayuku, Winstone Nyandiko, Lukoye Atwoli, Samuel Ayaya, Peter Gisore, Michael Scanlon and Paula Braitstein

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:23

    Content type: Research article

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  28. Cancer patients are at risk of developing blood clots in their veins - venous thromboembolism (VTE) - which often takes the form of a pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis. The risk increases with advance...

    Authors: Laura Sheard, Hayley Prout, Dawn Dowding, Simon Noble, Ian Watt, Anthony Maraveyas and Miriam Johnson

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:22

    Content type: Research article

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  29. The process of obtaining informed consent continues to be a contentious issue in clinical and public health research carried out in resource-limited settings. We sought to evaluate this process among human res...

    Authors: Ronald Kiguba, Paul Kutyabami, Stephen Kiwuwa, Elly Katabira and Nelson K Sewankambo

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:21

    Content type: Research article

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  30. 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 ...

    Authors: Arja Halkoaho, Anna-Maija Pietilä, Mari Vesalainen and Kirsi Vähäkangas

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:20

    Content type: Research article

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  31. The banking of biological samples raises a number of ethical issues in relation to the storage, export and re-use of samples. Whilst there is a growing body of literature exploring participant perspectives in ...

    Authors: Gerrit van Schalkwyk, Jantina de Vries and Keymanthri Moodley

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:19

    Content type: Research article

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  32. Professional health care practice should be based on ethical decisions and actions. When there are competing ethical standards or principles, one must choose between two or more competing options. This study e...

    Authors: Joy Noel-Weiss, Betty Cragg and A Kirsten Woodend

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:18

    Content type: Research article

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  33. Clinical trials involving children previously considered unethical are now considered essential because of the inherent physiological differences between children and adults. An integral part of research ethic...

    Authors: Mutsa Bwakura-Dangarembizi, Rosemary Musesengwa, Kusum J Nathoo, Patrick Takaidza, Tawanda Mhute and Tichaona Vhembo

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:17

    Content type: Correspondence

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  35. Seeking consent for genetic and genomic research can be challenging, particularly in populations with low literacy levels, and in emergency situations. All of these factors were relevant to the MalariaGEN stud...

    Authors: Paulina Tindana, Susan Bull, Lucas Amenga-Etego, Jantina de Vries, Raymond Aborigo, Kwadwo Koram, Dominic Kwiatkowski and Michael Parker

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:15

    Content type: Research article

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  36. Breaking bad news to mothers whose children has disability is an important role of physicians. There has been considerable speculation about the inevitability of parental dissatisfaction with how they are info...

    Authors: Ahmed Mahmoud Abdelmoktader and Khalil A Abd Elhamed

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:14

    Content type: Research article

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  37. There is general consensus internationally that unfair distribution of the benefits of research is exploitative and should be avoided or reduced. However, what constitutes fair benefits, and the exact nature o...

    Authors: Sassy Molyneux, Stephen Mulupi, Lairumbi Mbaabu and Vicki Marsh

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:13

    Content type: Research article

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  38. 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 pre...

    Authors: Nchangwi Syntia Munung, Godfrey B Tangwa, Chi Primus Che, Laurent Vidal and Odile Ouwe-Missi-Oukem-Boyer

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:12

    Content type: Research article

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  41. Previous studies have found that the decision-making process for stored unused frozen embryos involves much emotional burden influenced by socio-cultural factors. This study aims to ascertain how Japanese pati...

    Authors: Shizuko Takahashi, Misao Fujita, Akihisa Fujimoto, Toshihiro Fujiwara, Tetsu Yano, Osamu Tsutsumi, Yuji Taketani and Akira Akabayashi

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:9

    Content type: Research article

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  44. Research ethics committees (RECs) are tasked to assess the risks and the benefits of a trial. Currently, two procedure-level approaches are predominant, the Net Risk Test and the Component Analysis.

    Authors: Rosemarie D L C Bernabe, Ghislaine J M W van Thiel, Jan A M Raaijmakers and Johannes J M van Delden

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:6

    Content type: Debate

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  45. The methodology of medical ethics during the last few decades has shifted from a predominant use of normative-philosophical analyses to an increasing involvement of empirical methods. The articles which have b...

    Authors: Sabine Salloch, Jan Schildmann and Jochen Vollmann

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:5

    Content type: Debate

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  47. Research activities in sub-Saharan Africa may be limited to delegated tasks due to the strong control from Western collaborators, which could lead to scientific production of little value in terms of its impac...

    Authors: Selidji T Agnandji, Valerie Tsassa, Cornelia Conzelmann, Carsten Köhler and Hans-Jörg Ehni

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:3

    Content type: Research article

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  49. Family members are often required to act as substitute decision-makers when health care or research participation decisions must be made for an incapacitated relative. Yet most families are unable to accuratel...

    Authors: Gina Bravo, Marcel Arcand, Danièle Blanchette, Anne-Marie Boire-Lavigne, Marie-France Dubois, Maryse Guay, Paule Hottin, Julie Lane, Judith Lauzon and Suzanne Bellemare

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2012 13:1

    Content type: Study protocol

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  50. In 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended three changes to HIV testing methods in US healthcare settings: (1) an opt-out approach, (2) removal of separate signed consent, and (3...

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

    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2011 12:24

    Content type: Research article

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