Participatory development of CURA, a clinical ethics support instrument for palliative careBMC Medical Ethics - Tập 23 - Trang 1-12 - 2022
Malene Vera van Schaik, H.Roeline Pasman, Guy Widdershoven, Suzanne Metselaar
Existing clinical ethics support (CES) instruments are considered useful. However, users report obstacles in using them in daily practice. Including end users and other stakeholders in developing CES instruments might help to overcome these limitations. This study describes the development process of a new ethics support instrument called CURA, a low-threshold four-step instrument focused on nurse...... hiện toàn bộ
Child’s assent in research: Age threshold or personalisation?BMC Medical Ethics - Tập 15 - Trang 1-7 - 2014
Marcin Waligora, Vilius Dranseika, Jan Piasecki
Assent is an important ethical and legal requirement of paediatric research. Unfortunately, there are significant differences between the guidelines on the details of assent. What often remains unclear is the scope of the assent, the procedure for acquiring it, and the way in which children’s capacity to assent is determined. There is a general growing tendency that suggests that the process of as...... hiện toàn bộ
Comparison of ethical judgments exhibited by clients and ethics consultants in JapanBMC Medical Ethics - Tập 15 - Trang 1-10 - 2014
Noriko Nagao, Yasuhiro Kadooka, Atsushi Asai
Healthcare professionals must make decisions for patients based on ethical considerations. However, they rely on clinical ethics consultations (CEC) to review ethical justifications of their decisions. CEC consultants support the cases reviewed and guide medical care. When both healthcare professionals and CEC consultants face ethical problems in medical care, how is their judgment derived? How do...... hiện toàn bộ
Reporting violations of European Charter of Patients’ Rights: analysis of patient complaints in CroatiaBMC Medical Ethics - Tập 22 - Trang 1-10 - 2021
Jasna Karačić, Marin Viđak, Ana Marušić
The European Charter of Patients' Rights (ECPR) presents basic patients' rights in health care. We analysed the characteristics of patients' complaints about their rights submitted through the official complaints system and to a non-governmental organization in Croatia. The official system for patients’complaints in Croatia does not have a common pathway but offers different modes for addressing p...... hiện toàn bộ