In this column the authors discuss the ethics of information exchange in nursing practice with children. Five concepts identified in three Swedish grounded theory studies and a content analysis that used the theoretical framework of ethical demand were analyzed. A simultaneous concept analysis found five related concepts: being interconnected, acting according to accepted procedure, completenes...

The rapid developments of robotics technologies in the last twenty years of the XX century have greatly encouraged research on the use of robots for surgery, diagnosis, rehabilitation, prosthetics, and assistance to disabled and elderly people. This chapter provides an overview of robotic technologies and systems for health care, focussing on various ethical problems that these technologies giv...

This paper discusses the security requirements of a centralized, unique electronic health record. The requirements are based on the well known principles of confidentiality and integrity, and the less discussed principles of control and legal value. Among the non-standard ethical principles, we argue that patients should not have the right to change or read their health records, against, for ex...

Medical ethics examines not only violations of individual integrity in clinical practice but also the sanction that available policies and legislation grant to questionable medical practices. The ethical issues in psychiatry are to be examined in the context of the liaisons between the practices of medi.cal and paramedical institutions, our recent national policy on mental health care and the n...

Technological advancements are improving very fast, just recently there was the introduction of ChatGPT has had a serious impact on education. This poses significant challenge to education integrity, accessibility, and inclusivity. Many students worldwide do online learning due pandemic that hit world back in 2019. led integrating as strategy control in-person interactions. Online thus increase...

Gold refineries are under pressure to revise their understanding of “integrity” beyond the physical cohesion gold products, in order integrate supply chain due diligence on human rights, labour conditions, and conflict financing as part what can be coined ethical integrity gold. This article interrogates how processes erasure, through material purification refining process, disclosure, certific...

Good Clinical Practice (GCP) is an international ethical and scientific quality standard for the design, conduct, performance, monitoring, auditing, recording, analyses and reporting of clinical trials involving the participation of human subjects. Compliance with this standard provides public assurance that the rights, safety, integrity and confidentiality and well being of trial subjects are ...

In 1994, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops revised the "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services." A goal of the Directives is to maintain the moral integrity of Catholic health care institutions and to address controversies in bioethics and health care. The Directives represent a shift to an exclusively principle-based approach to moral reason. This shift th...

BACKGROUND Discussions on ethical aspects of life-and-death decisions within the hospital are often made in plenary. The prehospital physician, however, may be faced with ethical dilemmas in life-and-death decisions when time-critical decisions to initiate or refrain from resuscitative efforts need to be taken without the possibility to discuss matters with colleagues. Little is known whether t...

Por otro lado, la capacitación es otro aspecto que debe de considerarse, en ese sentido, el Reglamento de tengan en ética en investigación y uno de sus miembros debe tener capacitación en bioética El costo de la capacitación es un tema que no ha sido cuenta que el trabajo que realizan los miembros de los exige no solo es de tres a cuatro horas de sesión que se hace como parte de la carga labora...