Understanding drug exceptional access programs (DEAPs) in Canada, and their associated social and political issues
Drug exceptional access programs (DEAPs) exist across Canada to address gaps in access to pharmaceuticals. These programs circumvent standard procedures, raising epistemic, economic, social and political issue... (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 26, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Pierre-Marie David, Kayley Laura Lata, Marie-Eve Bouthillier and Jean-Christophe B élisle-Pipon Tags: Comment Source Type: research

How stable are moral judgements? A longitudinal study of context dependency in attitudes towards patient responsibility
Whether patients' life-style should involve lower priority for treatment is a controversial question in bioethics. Less is known about clinicians' views. (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Berit H Bringedal and Karin Isaksson R ø Tags: Research Source Type: research

A QALY is [still] a QALY is [still] a QALY?
Despite clinical evidence of drug superiority, therapeutic modalities, like combination immunotherapy, are mostly considered cost-ineffective due to their high costs per life year(s) gained. This paper, taking... (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 23, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Hamideh Mahdiani, Nikolai M ünch and Norbert W. Paul Tags: Comment Source Type: research

Supporting patient decision-making in non-invasive prenatal testing: a comparative study of professional values and practices in England and France
Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), which can screen for aneuploidies such as trisomy 21, is being implemented in several public healthcare systems across Europe. Comprehensive communication and information ... (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 21, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Hilary Bowman-Smart, Adeline Perrot and Ruth Horn Tags: Research Source Type: research

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the ethics in medical research among Moroccan interns and resident physicians
In Morocco, medical research ethics training was integrated into the medical curriculum during the 2015 reform. In the same year, a law on medical research ethics was enacted to protect individuals participati... (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 20, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Ibtissam El Harch, Soumaya Benmaamar, Nabil Tachfouti, Moustapha Hida, Mohammed Faouzi Belahsen, Tarik Sqalli Houssaini and Karima El Rhazi Tags: Research Source Type: research

What are the views of Quebec and Ontario citizens on the tiebreaker criteria for prioritizing access to adult critical care in the extreme context of a COVID-19 pandemic?
The prioritization protocols for accessing adult critical care in the extreme pandemic context contain tiebreaker criteria to facilitate decision-making in the allocation of resources between patients with a s... (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 19, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Claudia Calderon Ramirez, Yanick Farmer, Andrea Frolic, Gina Bravo, Nathalie Orr Gaucher, Antoine Payot, Lucie Opatrny, Diane Poirier, Joseph Dahine, Audrey L ’Espérance, James Downar, Peter Tanuseputro, Louis-Martin Rousseau, Vincent Dumez, Annie Desc Tags: Research Source Type: research

Ethical challenges in global research on health system responses to violence against women: a qualitative study of policy and professional perspectives
Studying global health problems requires international multidisciplinary teams. Such multidisciplinarity and multiculturalism create challenges in adhering to a set of ethical principles across different count... (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 19, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Natalia V. Lewis, Beatriz Kalichman, Yuri Nishijima Azeredo, Loraine J. Bacchus and Ana Flavia d ’Oliveira Tags: Research Source Type: research

Understanding, being, and doing of bioethics; a state-level cross-sectional study of knowledge, attitude, and practice among healthcare professionals
The field of bioethics examines the moral and ethical dilemmas that arise in the biological sciences, healthcare, and medical practices. There has been a rise in medical negligence cases, complaints against he... (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 18, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Poovishnu Devi Thangavelu, Balamurugan Janakiraman, Renuka Pawar, Pravin H. Shingare, Suresh Bhosale, Russel D Souza, Ivone Duarte and Rui Nunes Tags: Research Source Type: research

Comprehension of informed consent and voluntary participation in registration cohorts for phase IIb HIV vaccine trial in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: a qualitative descriptive study
Informed consent as stipulated in regulatory human research guidelines requires volunteers to be well-informed about what will happen to them in a trial. However, researchers may be faced with the challenge of... (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 13, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Masunga K. Iseselo and Edith A. M. Tarimo Tags: Research Source Type: research

An empirical ethics study of the coherence of NICE technology appraisal policy and its implications for moral justification
As the UK ’s main healthcare priority-setter, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has good reason to want to demonstrate that its decisions are morally justified. In doing so, it has te... (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 6, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Victoria Charlton and Michael DiStefano Tags: Research Source Type: research

Ethics of early detection of disease risk factors: A scoping review
Scientific and technological advancements in mapping and understanding the interrelated pathways through which biological and environmental exposures affect disease development create new possibilities for det... (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 5, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Sammie N. G. Jansen, Bart A. Kamphorst, Bob C. Mulder, Irene van Kamp, Sandra Boekhold, Peter van den Hazel and Marcel F. Verweij Tags: Research Source Type: research

Correction to: Mapping trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model
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Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 5, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Mar ía Victoria Martínez-López, Leah McLaughlin, Alberto Molina-Pérez, Krzysztof Pabisiak, Nadia Primc, Gurch Randhawa, David Rodríguez-Arias, Jorge Suárez, Sabine Wöhlke and Janet Delgado Tags: Correction Source Type: research

Correction to: Evaluating the understanding of the ethical and moral challenges of Big Data and AI among Jordanian medical students, physicians in training, and senior practitioners: a cross-sectional study
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Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 5, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Abdallah Al-Ani, Abdallah Rayyan, Ahmad Maswadeh, Hala Sultan, Ahmad Alhammouri, Hadeel Asfour, Tariq Alrawajih, Sarah Al Sharie, Fahed Al Karmi, Ahmed Mahmoud Al-Azzam, Asem Mansour and Maysa Al-Hussaini Tags: Correction Source Type: research

“She was finally mine”: the moral experience of families in the context of trisomy 13 and 18– a scoping review with thematic analysis
The value of a short life characterized by disability has been hotly debated in the literature on fetal and neonatal outcomes. (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - March 2, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Zoe Ritchie, Gail Teachman, Randi Zlotnik Shaul and Maxwell J. Smith Tags: Research Source Type: research

A bioethical perspective on the meanings behind a wish to hasten death: a meta-ethnographic review
The expressions of a “wish to hasten death” or “wish to die” raise ethical concerns and challenges. These expressions are related to ethical principles intertwined within the field of medical ethics, particula... (Source: BMC Medical Ethics)
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - February 27, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Paulo J. Borges, Pablo Hern ández-Marrero and Sandra Martins Pereira Tags: Research Source Type: research