This article presents standards for setting up and educating institutional ethics committees (IECs). These standards are based on experiences in the Netherlands, where IECs have been established in a ...

1 ErasmusMC, Department of Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Ethics Institute, Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...

3 Division of Philosophy, Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University, Sweden Introduction Given healthcare resource constraints, voices are being raised to hold patients responsible ...

Correspondence to Dr Henry Silverman, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 South Paca Street/2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; hsilverm{at}medicine.umaryland.edu Purpose Many research ...

Objective—To demonstrate Japanese doctors' and nurses' attitudes towards and practices of voluntary euthanasia (VE) and to compare their attitudes and practices in this regard. Design—Postal survey, ...

1 Department of Medical Decision Making, of the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2 Department of Surgery of the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 ...

School of Communication Disorders, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, East St, PO Box 170, Lidcombe, 1825, NSW, Australia Correspondence to: Dr Belinda Kenny Discipline of Speech ...

This paper examines whether the modern bioethical principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice proposed by Beauchamp and Childress are existent in, compatible with, or ...

The objective of explainable artificial intelligence systems designed for clinical decision support (XAI-CDSS) is to enhance ...

Artificial placenta technologies (also termed ‘artificial wombs’) for use in place of conventional neonatal intensive care ...

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