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NIH Reaches Out to Native Americans to Join All of Us Study
The National Institutes of Health is treading carefully and erring on the side of communication and inclusion in asking American Indian and Alaska Natives to participate in the All of Us precision research initiative.
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Meaningful Informed Consent Tells People What They Want to Know
Informed consent forms should provide information that a reasonable person would like to have and that would help an informed person make a decision on whether to participate in a study.
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Managing Conflicts of Interest Requires Time, Expertise
Research institutions could improve their conflicts of interest management by devoting staff or departmental resources to the issue.
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Consciousness Guidelines Affect Continuation of Care
New guidelines on how to determine consciousness could affect how healthcare organizations address legal questions regarding intensity of care, discontinuation of care, and end-of-life decisions.
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Surge in Ethics Consults Outside ICU Setting
Ethicists at Springfield, IL-based Memorial Medical Center have been seeing increased volume of consults for some time. Recently, they have noticed many are occurring outside of the ICU setting.
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Patients With Language Barriers Less Likely to Limit Life Support and Change Code to DNR
Decisions regarding life support, code status, and advance directives are different for patients with limited English proficiency in the ICU compared with patients whose primary language was English, found a recent study.
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Ethics Guidance on Reproductive Issues in Cancer Patients
Multiple ethical issues related to reproduction in the context of cancer are addressed in an updated position statement from The American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s Ethics Committee.
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Orientation for Ethics Consultants? Some Have None at All
Institutions should re-evaluate their orientation practices for ethics committee members that perform ethics consultations, suggests recent research.
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Ethics Needs of Pediatric EDs More Prevalent
Ethical challenges in pediatric EDs are more prevalent than in adult EDs, found a recent study. Researchers also found that nurses voice specific moral distress issues that are different than adult EDs.
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Informed Consent Challenges When Subject Is in ICU
ICU patients frequently lack capacity to provide informed consent for clinical research due to multiple factors. However, the presence of one or more of these characteristics does not automatically designate a potential subject as lacking capacity to provide his or her own informed consent.