Ethics and methods in surgical trials

Ethics and methods in surgical trials.

This paper focuses on invasive therapeutic procedures, defined as procedures requiring the introduction of hands, instruments, or devices into the body via incisions or punctures of the skin or mucous membranes performed with the intent of changing the natural history of a human disease or condition for the better. Ethical and methodological concerns have been expressed about studies designed t...

Surgical ethics: surgical virtue and more.

The encounter between a patient and her surgeon is unique for several reasons. The surgeon inflicts pain upon a patient for the patient's own good. An operative intervention is irreducibly personal, such that the decisions about and performance of operations are inseparable from the idiosyncrasies of the individual surgeon. Furthermore, there is a chasm of knowledge between the patient and surg...

Ethics tests for trials.

Ethics and statistical methodology in clinical trials.

Statisticians in medicine can disagree on appropriate methodology applicable to the design and analysis of clinical trials. So called Bayesians and frequentists both claim ethical superiority. This paper, by defining and then linking together various dichotomies, argues there is a place for both statistical camps. The choice between them depends on the phase of clinical trial, disease prevalenc...

Ethics and Research Methods

In Information Systems (IS), the ethical conduct of research may be something which we take for granted or perhaps simply ignore. Given the seriousness of ethical dilemmas that can arise, however, it is important to pay attention to ethical issues. In this essay, a personal perspective is given on the nature of ethics in Information Systems research. The philosophical theories of teleology and ...