1 University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, Seattle, Washington, USA 2 University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Seattle ...

In a recent article, Haining et al outline several ethical and regulatory considerations for polygenic risk scores (PRSs), ...

When should doctors nudge their patients towards the treatments they think are best? If the nudge is compatible with the ...

The practice of evidence based medicine has changed the role of the physician from information dispenser to gatherer and analyser. Studies and controlled trials that may contain unknown errors, or ...

It is argued, in this paper, that moral theories should not be discussed extensively when teaching applied ethics. First, it is argued that, students are either presented with a large amount of ...

OBJECTIVES: To study the resuscitation preferences, choice of decision-maker, views on the seeking of patients' wishes and determinants of these of elderly hospital in-patients. DESIGN: Questionnaire ...

1 Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, Kapucijnenvoer 35, B-3000 Leuven; ...

Correspondence to Dr Benjamin J Wheeler, Women's and Children's Health, University of Otago, Dunedin School of Medicine, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; ben.wheeler{at}otago.ac.nz Objective To ...

The notion of consent which rose to the forefront in biomedical ethics as an attempt to safeguard patients' autonomy, is relatively new. The notion itself requires qualification, for it precludes ...

Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands Ghislaine van Thiel, University Medical Center Utrecht, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University ...

2 Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; N.Keiding{at}biostat.ku.dk Correspondence to: Professor N Keiding Department of ...

Physicians have an ethical responsibility to their patients to offer the best available medical care. This responsibility conflicts with their role as gatekeepers of the limited health care resources ...