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Quality of consent form completion in orthopaedics: are we just going through the motions?
Consent plays a vital role in every aspect of medicine and surgery, facilitating the patient in making informed decisions about their treatment. The recently published Reference Guide to Consent, by ...
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Infant homicide and accidental death in the United States, 1940–2005: ethics and epidemiological classification
1 Department of Neurology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA 2 Department of Statistics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA Correspondence to Dr Jack E ...
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Telecare and self-management: opportunity to change the paradigm?
Telecare, the provision of care through remote interaction enabled by information and communication technology, is quickly developing. Integration with other technological developments is to be ...
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Medical futility and physician discretion
Some patients have no chance of surviving if not treated, but very little chance if treated. A number of medical ethicists and physicians have argued that treatment in such cases is medically futile ...
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Documented consent process for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and implications for end-of-life care in older adults
1 Department of Internal Medicine, KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA 2 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA 3 Department of ...
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Determining the need for ethical review: a three-stage Delphi study
Dr N Crichton, Institute of Primary Care & Public Health, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Rd, London SE1 0AA, UK; crichtnj{at}lsbu.ac.uk Aims: The aims of the study were to explore expert ...
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‘Doctor, what would you do in my position?’ Health professionals and the decision-making process in pregnancy monitoring
Objective Routine prenatal screening for Down syndrome challenges professional non-directiveness and patient autonomy in daily clinical practices. This paper aims to describe how professionals ...
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War crimes, sexual assault and medical confidentiality in Israel
Hamas militants have raped and mutilated the bodies of dozens of men and women in Israel during their attack and captivity in ...
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A definition of human death should not be related to organ transplants
President of the Cuban Commission for the Definition and Determination of Death, Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Apartado 4268, Havana 10400, Cuba; braind{at}infomed.sld.cu Shewmon recently ...
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Environmental sustainability and the carbon emissions of pharmaceuticals
Correspondence to Dr Cristina Richie, Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft 2628, The Netherlands; c.s.richie{at}tudelft.nl The US healthcare industry emits an ...
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A case study from the perspective of medical ethics: refusal of treatment in an ambulance
1 Department of Deontology and History of Medicine, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey 2 Cukurova University Adana Health High School, Department of Midwifery, Adana, Turkey Correspondence to Dr Hasan ...
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On the difficulty of neurosurgical end of life decisions
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany Correspondence to: Carlo Schaller MD Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn Medical Center, Sigmund-Freud-Str 25, ...