The Alberta Research Ethics Community Consensus Initiative (ARECCI) is a unique Canadian initiative that addresses the ethical oversight of two main categories of health-related investigative projects: research and quality improvement (including quality assurance and program evaluation). ARECCI was formed as a result of discussions arising from health regions, health researchers and the Alberta...

The ethics of medical research have grown as an area of expertise and debate in recent years, with two broad approaches emerging in relation to transnational research: (1) the refinement of guidelines and strengthening of review, processes primarily to protect the right of individual research participants and strengthen interpersonal relations at the micro-level; and (2) considering more centra...

Implementation research (IR) is growing in recognition as an important generator of practical knowledge that can be translated into health policy. With its aim to answer questions about how to improve access to interventions that have been shown to work but have not reached many of the people who could benefit from them, IR involves a range of particular ethical considerations that have not yet...

The technical feasibility of the development of transgenic mosquitoes highly refractory to (rodent) malaria parasites has been demonstrated in the laboratory. Following this proof of principle, genetic control of vectors could have an important role to play in the interruption of transmission of human malarias, if the main developmental and implementation challenges are adequately addressed. Th...

INTRODUCTION Discharge documents are important for transferring information from hospitals to the referring clinician; in the UK and many countries, this is often the patient's general practitioner or family physician. However, patients may or may not receive their discharge letters, and whether patients should routinely receive discharge letters remains unclear. METHODS AND ANALYSIS The revi...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the nature of the deontological and teleological evaluations in the Hunt and Vitell model and offer a revision that more accurately reflects how the process actually occurs. Previously published works concerning ethical business models identify or imply limitations with the “core” decision-making process. In particular, concerns exist with (1) the proce...

Ethical leadership involves the execution of a behavioral pattern in which a man or woman attempts to lead from a virtuous set of values and beliefs. Ethical leadership investigates relationships between ethical leaders and follower outcomes with more research needed on organizational identity and outcomes. This research provides a socio-rhetorical analysis of Old Testament texture to investiga...

Background: Rural geomorphoturism is a type of consciously and sensibly rural tourism in environment with the aim of watching and recognizing the geological phenomena and their processes and learning how to shape and evolve them in and around the countryside, Which if ignored by ethical standards by tourists, can lead to problems and vulnerabilities in villages. Therefore, the current research ...

background: ethical leadership represents the leader's proactive efforts to influence followers' ethical and unethical behavior and follower work attitudes such as perceived organizational support, affective commitment and normal behaviors. the purpose of this research was to test the relationship of ethical leadership and ethical context with affective commitment that mediating the r...