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Ethical Use of Restraint Hinges on Decision-Making Capacity
The situation becomes ethically complex if the patient’s capacity is unclear, ambiguous, or fluctuating. It is much harder to know if, when, and how to avoid inflicting harm while balancing the patient’s legal and ethical right to make their own decisions.
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Medical Incapacity Holds Require Ethical Oversight
Clinicians feel conflicted about their ethical obligations. On one hand, they know it is unsafe for a confused person to be allowed to walk out of the hospital. On the other hand, they are understandably worried about their legal risks.
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Parents Struggle to Contact Ethics Consultants
If they do not know the service even exists, how can patients or families ask for an ethics consult?
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Can Interactive Tools Make Informed Consent Patient Friendly?
For someone weighing whether to participate in a clinical trial, receiving a 20-page consent form can act as a deterrent. IRBs should be thinking about the consequences of information overload.
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Updated Ethics Guidance on Medical Informatics
Privacy, security, informed consent, and conflict of interest are ethical issues in healthcare that also are relevant in the health informatics field. A revised code of ethics from the American Medical Informatics Association addresses these and other concerns.
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Ethical Approaches for Accurate Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
When researchers are comparing treatments in clinical trials, proxy reports might be a useful surrogate for patients whose self-report cannot be obtained or is unreliable.
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What Happens if Post-Approval Studies Are Delayed or Do Not Show Benefit?
Essentially, the ethical issues are how to consider the interests of patients today, who are willing to accept uncertainty in the hopes a drug works because they do not have time to wait, and the interests of patients tomorrow, who would prefer to have stronger evidence about what works and what does not.
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Disclosure Needed if Physicians Own Outpatient Facilities
Physician ownership creates an inherent conflict of interest, known as “dual agency.” This means the physician has a personal financial stake that could conflict with the ethical obligation toward patient well-being.
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The Harms of Urine Drug Screening for Isolated Marijuana Use on Labor and Delivery Units
Isolated marijuana use, when used as an indication for urine drug screening during the labor and delivery period, poorly predicts concomitant use of other nonprescribed substances. However, use of the screening brings real risk of inequitable harm.
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Labiaplasty in the United States
In this descriptive study, the rates of labiaplasty from 2016-2019 in the United States ranged from 3,046 to 4,315 per year and were highest among women aged 18 to 35 years.