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Clinicians Have New Ethical Framework for AI in Pediatrics
As healthcare institutions continue to adapt and incorporate novel AI-driven technologies, it is imperative to include ethicists in deliberations and policy development.
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Ethicists Can Proactively Prepare for AI Systems
There is a lot of speculation on the part of ethicists as to how ChatGPT or other adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) systems that have been or will be developed, could affect their jobs, their role, ethics education, and the overall field of bioethics.
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Ethicists May Face Cuts in FTEs, Less Protected Ethics Time — and Increased Workload
Some ethics programs are facing the possibility of full-time employees (FTEs) or protected ethics time being decreased.
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Ethical Considerations with After-the-Fact Informed Consent
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital are seeking to validate a new technology to isolate and identify bacteria in the bloodstream of very sick patients — something that takes more than 24 hours using traditional blood cultures.
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Most ED Patients Overestimate Success of CPR
Emergency physicians routinely need to ask patients about their wishes for care if they go into cardiac arrest.
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Moral Distress Common in Pediatric ECMO Cases
At Boston Children’s Hospital, 4.5% of pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) cases involved ethics consults, found authors of a recent study.
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Ethics Concerns over Undisclosed Conflicts in Psychiatric Guidelines
For six years, Brian J. Piper, PhD, has conducted studies on conflict of interest disclosures in the textbooks used to train physicians, pharmacists, and other allied healthcare providers.
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Many Ethical Questions Still Unresolved with Xenotransplantation
A group of experts recently convened to explore ethical and legal issues involved with xenotransplantation and attempted to delineate areas of consensus and areas where there is still controversy.
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Clinicians Need Help with Ethically Complex ICU Discharges
Clinicians are struggling with some intensive care unit (ICU) discharges that they believe potentially are unethical.
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Physicians Share Views on Medical Aid in Dying
Ethical controversy over medical aid in dying (MAiD) persists, despite the practice being legal in some jurisdictions.