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Patients Vary on How They Want to Make Medical Decisions
Do patients want to make a decision right away about surgery, or do they want time to think about it? As it stands currently, surgeons usually do not know this important information about their patients.
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Physicians Are Cautiously Optimistic About AI in Psychiatric Medicine
Physicians are optimistic about how artificial intelligence tools will affect psychiatric medicine in the long-term, a recent study found.
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Clinicians Need More Clarity on Ethical Obligations with AI
Increasingly, clinicians will be using artificial intelligence tools to inform their decision-making. Many are unclear what, if anything, to tell patients about it.
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Ethical Approaches if Researchers Use Telehealth to Obtain Informed Consent
When someone is considering whether to participate in a clinical trial, anything researchers can do to streamline the process can boost recruitment and retention. Using telehealth as part of the informed consent process could streamline the procedure, but it also presents some ethical concerns
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Researchers Are Including People with Developmental Disabilities as Participants and Partners
If clinical trials do not include people with developmental disabilities, this poses multiple ethical concerns. People with developmental disabilities may have specific unmet health needs that can be addressed by studies that focus on them. Researchers will need to make an additional effort, and make reasonable accommodations in their study designs, to facilitate participation of those with disabilities.
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Ethics Training Is More Effective In-Person than Online
Graduate students at Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX, have received Responsible Conduct of Research/Professional Ethics Training since 2008 with very good results. Cheryl Stenmark, PhD, and colleagues wanted to know if the program would be equally successful if presented as a real-time, video-streamed, remote training.
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Surrogate Decision-Makers Are Most Common Issue in Ethics Consults for Patients with Liver Disease
Surrogate decision-making was the primary ethical issue for clinical ethics consults involving patients with liver disease, according to a recent study.
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Incarcerated Patients Pose Unique Ethical Concerns
Clinicians encounter incarcerated patients in both inpatient and ambulatory settings. Multiple ethical complexities come up with patient care in this population.
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Privacy Is Ethical Concern with Suicide Research Recruitment in ED Setting
Clinical research is necessary to improve the management of potentially suicidal individuals. However, there are multiple ethical concerns about how to protect the rights and well-being of study participants.
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Ethical Approaches for End-of-Life Communication with Non-English-Speaking ICU Patients
When caring for non-English-language-speaking intensive care unit patients, clinicians face all the same ethical issues as they do with any other patient, and some additional ones when cases involve patients who speak rarer languages.