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Be on Your Best Behavior: The Ethics Police Are on the Way
There are a few common scenarios involving ethics misconceptions.
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Interventions Aim to Promote Ethical Research Practices
Researchers tested the efficacy of a one-hour training session on psychology graduate students' attitudes toward ethically questionable research practices. Students who rated the training more favorably demonstrated greater attitude change toward detrimental research practices.
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Optimism Linked With Better Outcomes: Physicians Can Promote It
Researchers found that higher levels of baseline optimism were, in fact, associated with lower rates of ischemia-driven hospitalization and revascularization. This group of patients showed greater improvements in angina severity compared with lower levels of baseline optimism.
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Are High-Dose Painkillers Ordered? Ethics Can Prevent Harm, Conflicts, Legal Disasters
Ethicists can help resolve issues in cases involving high-dose painkillers by using highly publicized cases as a teaching tool, determining which cases should be escalated automatically, and helping resolve conflicts among clinicians.
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Approach to Pediatric Abdominal Pain in the ED: Part II
Abdominal pain is challenging in pediatrics. This two-part series deals with must-not-miss diagnosis and common etiologies of abdominal pain. In this second part, the authors focus on toddlers and older children. -
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Hormonal Contraception and HIV: Does DMPA Increase Risk of Transmission?
This special feature includes a review of the evidence for the effect of hormonal and nonhormonal methods on HIV risk.
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Identify and Treat Urologic Injuries at Hysterectomy to Reduce Fistulas
In a large population-based cohort study, genitourinary fistulas were increased significantly if ureteral and/or bladder injuries were not identified and treated at the time of hysterectomy.
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Patients' Views on Adverse Events Following Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery
Patients see poor functional outcomes as severe adverse events following pelvic floor surgery.
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Should Obesity Be a Contraindication to Postpartum Tubal Sterilization?
In this retrospective cohort study of 279 women undergoing postpartum partial salpingectomy after vaginal delivery, the mean operative time for women with a BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2 was only 5.5 minutes longer than the time for women with a BMI < 30 kg/m2.