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Pharmacogenics-based prescribing can determine whether individual patients will benefit from certain drugs, and there is broad public support for this.
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Bioethicists are well-qualified to help address disruptive behavior by physicians, but often aren't involved in this process.
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To demonstrate the effectiveness of clinical ethics consultations, organizations need to show that the outcome was better than it would have been without the ethics consultation, but these data are often lacking.
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Microbiome research poses many of the same ethical concerns as genetic testing, and also some unique ethical considerations.
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Ethical concerns involving clinical photography using smartphones include patient privacy, unscrupulous use, informed consent, and security.
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Cost as an ethical concern in health care was addressed in the 2013 Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life.
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Patients with high spiritual support were more likely to receive aggressive end-of-life medical treatment, according to a recent study.
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