Lack of clarity about the proper limits of conscientious refusal to participate in particular healthcare practices has given rise to fears that, in the absence of clear parameters, conscience-based exemptions may become increasingly widespread, leading to intolerable burdens on health professionals, patients, and institutions. Here, we identify three factors which clarify the proper scope of co...

BACKGROUND The process of obtaining informed consent continues to be a contentious issue in clinical and public health research carried out in resource-limited settings. We sought to evaluate this process among human research participants in randomly selected active research studies approved by the School of Medicine Research and Ethics Committee at the College of Health Sciences, Makerere Univ...

BACKGROUND In Kuwait, 21 residency training programs were offered in the year 2011; however, no data is available regarding the criteria of selecting residents for these programs. This study aims to provide information about the importance of these criteria. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from members (e.g. chairmen, directors, assistants …etc.) of residenc...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to investigate an association previously reported in a retrospective study between the A phenotype and social classes I and II. DESIGN The study was a prospective survey using a cohort of blood donors. SETTING Participants were donors at a regional blood bank in southern Ireland servicing a population of approximately 380,000. PARTICIPANTS Of 2442 ...

BACKGROUND In earlier work, we found important selection biases when we tried to obtain consent for participation in a national stroke registry. Recognizing that not all registries will be exempt from requiring consent for participation, we examine here in greater depth the reasons for the poor accrual of patients from a systems perspective with a view to obtaining as representative sample as p...

The medico-legal issues raised by 'conscientious objection' constitute a particularly revealing, though hitherto neglected instance of the emerging relationship between community responsibility and personal health during the late Victorian period. The following paragraphs seek to indicate the relevance of a medico-legal approach to Victorian social history, and to suggest certain areas of resea...

Zusammenfassung Rechte von Kindern und Jugendlichen im Kontext der stationären öffentlichen Jugendhilfe werden immer wieder missachtet. So Spannungsfeld Hilfe Kontrolle Wohngruppen aus Perspektive dort lebenden jungen Menschen zu „Räumen Besonderung“. Die Forschungsperspektive Sozialpädagogischen Nutzer_innenforschung bietet eine Möglichkeit, das Recht Kinder auf einen eigensinnigen Standpunkt ...

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