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Involving children and adolescents (youth) living with HIV (YLWH) in research is critical for developing appropriate HIV care services and interventions. However, this vulnerable population may not adequately ...
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is increasingly being legalized in a growing number of countries and is the focus of societal and ethical debates. However, there is limited knowledge regarding the perception ...
Conflicts of interest (COIs) in healthcare research have received substantial attention over the past three decades. Although financial COI (FCOI) has an extensive literature, publications about non-financial ...
End-of-life (EoL) decisions represent some of the most ethically complex and emotionally charged aspects of healthcare. Understanding the attitudes of physicians, nurses, and the public toward EoL decisions is...
In this cross-sectional study, we assessed the ethical climate at the University Hospital of Split in Croatia and investigated its potential indicators.
Armed conflicts are associated with multiple factors that may deem applying the ethical standards of research conducted in war-affected areas hard to achieve, compared to research conducted in peace time.
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) has transformed health policy and practice on death and dying. However, there has been limited research on what shaped its emergence in Canada and the beliefs and views of he...
Technology, such as alert systems, can foster community engagement in locating missing persons with dementia and minimize potential harm. However, concerns arise about implications of public disclosure of miss...
Patient satisfaction is a significant measure of healthcare service quality as the patient is the center of any surgical procedure. Patient satisfaction refers to the extent to which a patient’s expectations o...
Globally, there is a notable increase in recognising the health needs of transgender and gender-diverse individuals. As a result, gender-affirming care services are evolving and expanding in many parts of the ...
Current research documents both the historical impact of racism in healthcare as well as studies piloting antiracist interventions as part of medical training to ameliorate its stigma, bias, and consequences i...
With the evolving person-centered care approach, the importance of family involvement is increasingly recognized to promote comprehensive treatment. However, determining when and how to disclose patient inform...
The importance of more diversity of study populations in clinical trials is currently widely acknowledged. Decentralized clinical trial (DCT) approaches are presented as a potential means to broaden diversity ...
Obtaining informed consent is the practice of respect for persons that gives the right to participants to make autonomous decisions about research participation. The difficult-to-read research informed consent...
Humanitarian organizations are rapidly expanding their use of data in the pursuit of operational gains in effectiveness and efficiency. Ethical risks, particularly from artificial intelligence (AI) data proces...
Informed consent is a bedrock of ethical medical practice; however, scenarios in which a third party refuses life-saving treatment for an incapacitated patient present a unique and underexplored ethical quanda...
This paper examines challenges associated with the governance of large-scale biobanks. As the collection and interrogation of population-scale data is increasingly positioned as a route to new understandings o...
Research shows that the age of fathers at the time of conception is correlated with detrimental effect for the health of the future offspring. This situation raises ethical questions regarding the priority of ...
The issue of late termination of pregnancy (abortion after a certain gestational age, depending on different definitions) is a topic of intense debate among healthcare professionals and the public, as it invol...
Intelligent assistive technology (IAT) can contribute to the empowerment of persons with dementia by increasing independence, strengthening social participation, and improving quality of life. IAT could, howev...
In the realm of healthcare, nurses frequently encounter complex ethical issues that demand moral courage. Nurses'moral courage is defined as the ability to act in alignment with their moral beliefs, even when ...
End-of-life (EOL) decision-making involves complex ethical, cultural, and religious considerations, particularly within minority communities. In Israel, the Arab population, comprising approximately 21% of the...
As cultural contexts have gained increasing relevance in medical decision-making, the current mainstream definition of autonomy is insufficient. A viable alternative framework, relational autonomy posits that ...
The provision of prenatal testing through publicly funded healthcare systems, including non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), is frequently justified on the basis of supporting reproductive autonomy and inform...
Future planning is essential for care partners to discuss and prepare for the goals of care for their relatives living with dementia. However, engaging in these discussions can be particularly challenging as c...
Every minute during an epidemic is important and research in such conditions is for the benefit of the society. Considering that identifying experiences is a way to prevent repeated mistakes and prepare people...
This review examines global human genetic resources management, focusing on genetic data policies and repositories in high- and middle-low-income countries.
Sickle cell disease (SCD) and Diamond-Blackfan anemia syndrome (DBAS) are two hereditary blood diseases that present significant challenges to patients, their caregivers, and the healthcare system. Both condit...
Nursing ethical decision-making ability is a core competency of nurses. However, no tool has been developed to measure the ethical decision-making ability of nurses in China. Therefore, we aimed to develop a n...
With a growing global population of migrants, understanding the complex dynamics between healthcare providers and policy restrictions is crucial for ensuring equitable access to healthcare. The main objective ...
Informed consent (IC) represents one of the fundamental rights of patients in healthcare. An essential aspect of the IC process is providing patients with equal access to information to enable them to make the...
In Belgium, termination of pregnancy after the first trimester is exclusively allowed on medical grounds. When faced with fetal or maternal health complications during pregnancy, patients typically turn to obs...
Moral distress, or the inability to carry out what one believes to be ethically appropriate because of constraints or barriers, is understudied in obstetrics and gynecology. We sought to characterize moral dis...
The original article was published in BMC Medical Ethics 2024 25:18
This study investigated the status of research integrity knowledge among dental undergraduates from 34 Chinese universities in 5 key demographic regions.
Occupational stigmatization in Chinese healthcare institutions has intensified due to negative public events (e.g., kickbacks, bribes, and patient conflicts). While previous studies have mainly focused on the ...
During recent decades, providing patients with access to their electronic health records (EHRs) has advanced in healthcare. In the European Union (EU), the General Data Protection Regulation provides individua...
The ethics committee has the responsibility to comply with the rules and guidelines regarding oversight of all human research activities, particularly when the research study involves vulnerable people. It als...
Residents who do not internalize professional values may not be a good fit for their specialty and compromise the quality of their patient care. Research aimed at recognizing residents’ shortcomings in profess...
Nigeria is an emerging hub of biomedical research, requiring additional trained bioethicists for ethical oversight of research studies. There are currently two graduate-level health research ethics programs in...
Little is known about how people living with HIV should be engaged in the decision-making process for returning individual pharmacogenomic research results. This study explored the role people living with HIV ...
There is growing consensus in favor of returning individual specific research results that are clinically actionable, valid, and reliable. However, deciding what and how research results should be returned rem...
Making appropriate end-of-life decisions in the intensive care unit (ICU) requires shared interprofessional decision-making. Thus, a decision-making climate that values the contributions of all team members, a...
Metabolic Bariatric Surgery (MBS) has gained significant popularity over the past decade. Legally and ethically, physicians should obtain the patient’s voluntary and informed consent before proceeding with the...
Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalized in Canada following the Carter v. Canada ruling of 2015. In spite of legalization, the ethics of MAiD remain contentious. The bioethical literature has attempted t...
Moral injury is a significant issue for healthcare workers, often stemming from exposure to ethical dilemmas and distressing events. This study aims to explore the relationship between moral injury and healthc...
Exploring the spiritual cognition of human organ donation registration volunteers, aiming to provide new ideas for promoting the development of organ donation through this perspective.
A variety of cognitive biases are known to compromise ethical deliberation and decision-making processes. However, little is known about their role in clinical ethics supports (CES).
Despite the existing reports on mistreatment and disrespectful maternal care, few studies have investigated interventions to mitigate this issue. The present study aims to assess the impact of consulting midwi...
Thailand has made significant progress in malaria control efforts in the past decade, with a decline in the number of reported cases. However, due to cross-border movements over the past 5 years, reported mala...
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