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Smartphones posing new ethical challenges with clinical photography
Ethical concerns involving clinical photography using smartphones include patient privacy, unscrupulous use, informed consent, and security. -
Microbiome research poses some unique ethical issues
Microbiome research poses many of the same ethical concerns as genetic testing, and also some unique ethical considerations. -
What do you know about effectiveness of ethics consults? Data are often lacking
To demonstrate the effectiveness of clinical ethics consultations, organizations need to show that the outcome was better than it would have been without the ethics consultation, but these data are often lacking. -
Steps needed before pediatric anthrax vaccine trials could be considered
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Bioethicists "ideally qualified" to help address disruptive behavior
Bioethicists are well-qualified to help address disruptive behavior by physicians, but often aren't involved in this process. -
Patients apparently eager for pharmacogenics-based prescribing
Pharmacogenics-based prescribing can determine whether individual patients will benefit from certain drugs, and there is broad public support for this. -
As CRE increases don't forget CDC toolkit
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OK, this may really be the stuff of nightmares
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CRE endoscope outbreak raises troubling questions about reprocessing, emerging New Delhi enzyme
An upper endoscopy procedure performed on some half million patients annually in the U.S. may pose risk for transmission of the emerging New Delhi variety of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) even if current cleaning and high level disinfection protocols are followed. -
CDC still hopeful NDM threat can be contained
In a shrinking global village it seems a pathogen emerging anywhere is soon a threat everywhere, but public health officials are not conceding victory to the New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) variety of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE).