The allocation of scarce healthcare resources inherently involves trade-offs between the interests of ‘visible’ and ...

The pace of scientific advancements in medicine, driven by artificial intelligence as much as by novel biotechnologies, demands an ever-faster update of professional knowledge from physicians and ...

Correspondence to G M Qurashi, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK; mail.mustafaqurashi{at}gmail.com The Organ Donation Act 2019 has introduced an opt-out organ donor ...

Mr M Doucet, Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6; 1wmd1{at}queensu.ca More than 40 primary studies, and three recent systematic reviews ...

Correspondence to Dr Brian D Earp, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, England; brian.earp{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk “Baby T” is a critically ill newborn delivered ...

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Martien A M Pijnenburg, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Dep.

This paper is an examination of how research ethics committees have evolved from being advisory committees to more formal regulatory authorities. It is argued that the role of ethics committees should ...

Objective A high prevalence of authorship problems can have a severe impact on the integrity of the research process. We evaluated the authorship practices of clinicians from the same university ...

1 Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Dr John A ...

Objectives: To develop and pilot a questionnaire based assessment of the importance patients place on medical confidentiality, whether they support disclosure of confidential information to protect ...

Correspondence to Dr Timothy F Murphy, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago IL 60612-7309, USA; tmurphy{at}uic.edu The law ordinarily recognises the ...