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The importance and potential benefits of palliative care to ease suffering and improve quality of life for patients being treated in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) has received increasing recognition but is not without significant challenges, as discussed in a roundtable discussion in a recent issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine.
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When investigators seek an exception from informed consent (EFIC) for emergency research, they must show that they have engaged in community consultation and public disclosure, informing the public that they might encounter an experimental intervention while being treated in an emergency setting.
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In the past decade, a growing number of academic medical centers have begun offering research ethics consultation services in which bioethics experts help scientists address the ethical and societal implications of their laboratory and clinical experiments.
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Thousands more American senior citizens with kidney disease are good candidates for transplants and could obtain them if physicians would move past outdated medical biases and put them on transplant waiting lists, according to a new study1 by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
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A new study looks at an intriguing strategy for improving study subjects' understanding and knowledge of clinical research. After subjects finished participating in the study, they were given a "debriefing" statement that explained more fully what the study was about and how it would contribute to scientific knowledge.
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In a survey of more than 380 patients, nearly 80% said that they believe a surgeon's experience is essential information that patients need to make an informed decision about elective surgery.
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California HealthCare Foundation, Oakland, CA, commissioned a survey that would determine what percentage of patients actually has end-of-life (EOL) wishes in place.
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One year ago, a landmark study quantified a relationship between physicians' empathy and their patients' positive clinical outcomes and suggested that a physician's empathy is an important factor associated with clinical competence.
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At Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL, a patient has become the final link in the world's longest living-donor kidney transplant chain.
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The FDA issued a guidance detailing how to comply with the new regulation that informed consent documents include a specific statement that clinical trial information will be or has been submitted for inclusion in ClinicalTrials.gov's trial registry.
