Objectives: To develop and pilot a questionnaire based assessment of the importance patients place on medical confidentiality, whether they support disclosure of confidential information to protect ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA 2 Office of Research Compliance, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA 3 Department ...

Background: The search for genetic variants between racial/ethnic groups to explain differential disease susceptibility and drug response has provoked sharp criticisms, challenging the appropriateness ...

The modern doctor-patient relationship displays a patient-centred, mutual-participation characteristic rather than the former active-passive or guidance-cooperation models in terms of medical decision ...

One argument for the permissibility of euthanasia found in the African philosophical tradition suggests that the sole goal of ...

Clinical Ethics at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Correspondence to Dr L F Ross, Department of Paediatrics, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 6082, Chicago, IL60637, USA; ...

Correspondence to Sedona Celine de Keijzer, Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam UMC Locatie VUmc, Amsterdam, Netherlands; s.c.dekeijzer{at}amsterdamumc.nl Background The Dutch Euthanasia Act ...

This article presents standards for setting up and educating institutional ethics committees (IECs). These standards are based on experiences in the Netherlands, where IECs have been established in a ...

3 Division of Philosophy, Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University, Sweden Introduction Given healthcare resource constraints, voices are being raised to hold patients responsible ...

Correspondence to Dr Henry Silverman, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 South Paca Street/2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; hsilverm{at}medicine.umaryland.edu Purpose Many research ...

Research projects sponsored by rich countries or companies and carried out in developing countries are often described as exploitative. One important debate about the prevention of exploitation in ...