Journal of medical ethics
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Journal of medical ethics · Jul 2022
ReviewFraud and retraction in perioperative medicine publications: what we learned and what can be implemented to prevent future recurrence.
90% of fraudulent papers in perioperative medicine retracted over the last 30 years were authored by only six researchers.
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Journal of medical ethics · Oct 2017
ReviewFamily presence during resuscitation: extending ethical norms from paediatrics to adults.
Many families of patients hold the view that it is their right to be present during a loved one's resuscitation, while the majority of patients also express the comfort and support they would feel by having them there. Currently, family presence is more commonly accepted in paediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) than adult CPR. Even though many guidelines are in favour of this practice and recognise potential benefits, healthcare professionals are hesitant to support adult family presence to the extent that paediatric family presence is supported. ⋯ Importantly, we do not wish to suggest that P-FPDR should not be allowed. Rather, we suggest that since P-FPDR is commonly (and should be) allowed, so should A-FPDR. This is because the aforementioned arguments that are used to justify FPDR in general actually make a stronger case for A-FPDR.
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Journal of medical ethics · Jun 2017
ReviewAppealing to the crowd: ethical justifications in Canadian medical crowdfunding campaigns.
Medical crowdfunding is growing in terms of the number of active campaigns, amount of funding raised and public visibility. Little is known about how campaigners appeal to potential donors outside of anecdotal evidence collected in news reports on specific medical crowdfunding campaigns. ⋯ We find the justifications campaigners tend to fall into three themes: personal connections, depth of need and giving back. We further discuss how these appeals can understood in terms of ethical justifications for giving and how these justifications should be assessed in light of the academic literature on ethical concerns raised by medical crowdfunding.
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Journal of medical ethics · Aug 2015
ReviewContinuing or forgoing treatment at the end of life? Preferences of the general public and people with an advance directive.
We studied preferences on continuing or forgoing different types of treatments at the end of life in two groups: the general public and people with an advance directive (AD). Furthermore, we studied factors associated with these preferences and whether people's preferences concurred with the content of their AD. ⋯ The fact that people with and without ADs have different preferences concerning different treatments and diseases stresses the importance of communication surrounding decision making at the end of life.
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Journal of medical ethics · Aug 2015
ReviewCan physicians conceive of performing euthanasia in case of psychiatric disease, dementia or being tired of living?
Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) in patients with psychiatric disease, dementia or patients who are tired of living (without severe morbidity) is highly controversial. Although such cases can fall under the Dutch Euthanasia Act, Dutch physicians seem reluctant to perform EAS, and it is not clear whether or not physicians reject the possibility of EAS in these cases. ⋯ This study shows that a minority of Dutch physicians find it conceivable that they would grant a request for EAS from a patient with psychiatric disease, dementia or a patient who is tired of living. For physicians who find EAS inconceivable in these cases, legal arguments and personal moral objections both probably play a role.