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Jigisha Patel, MRCP PhD

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Natalie Pafitis


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BMC Medical Ethics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in the ethics of medical research and practice. BMC Medical Ethics (ISSN 1472-6939) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE and Google Scholar.



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BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9:9
In the few studies of public attitudes to emergency clinical research without consent half of those questioned disagree with it, but paradoxically more would personally take part in such a study especially outside a formal research protocol.
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BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9:4
Research participants who received their individual research results felt this information was quasi-clinical and inadequate, suggesting a need to further debate the ethical obligation to communicate individual research results.


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Research article
Understanding and retention of the informed consent process among parents in rural northern Ghana
Abraham R Oduro, Raymond A Aborigo, Dickson Amugsi, Francis Anto, Thomas Anyorigiya, Frank Atuguba, Abraham Hodgson, Kwadwo A Koram
BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9:12 (19June2008)
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Correspondence
Cesarean delivery on maternal request: Can the ethical problem be solved by the principlist approach?
Tore Nilstun, Marwan Habiba, Gran Lingman, Rodolfo Saracci, Monica Da Fr, Marina Cuttini, the EUROBS study group
BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9:11 (17June2008)
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Research article
Informed consent in Sri Lanka: A survey among ethics committee members
Athula Sumathipala, Sisira Siribaddana, Suwin Hewage, Manura Lekamwattage, Manjula Athukorale, Chesmal Siriwardhana, Joanna Murray, Martin Prince
BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9:10 (20May2008)
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Research article
Clinical research without consent in adults in the emergency setting: a review of patient and public views
Jan Lecouturier, Helen Rodgers, Gary A Ford, Tim Rapley, Lynne Stobbart, Stephen J Louw, Madeleine J Murtagh
BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9:9 (29April2008)
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Debate
What is presumed when we presume consent?
Barbara K Pierscionek
BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9:8 (25April2008)
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Research article
Is the qualitative research interview an acceptable medium for research with palliative care patients and carers?
Marjolein Gysels, Cathy Shipman, Irene J Higginson
BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9:7 (24April2008)
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Review
How do we know that research ethics committees are really working? The neglected role of outcomes assessment in research ethics review
Carl H Coleman, Marie-Charlotte Bousseau
BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9:6 (28March2008)
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Research article
The principle of respect for autonomy Concordant with the experience of oncology physicians and molecular biologists in their daily work?
Mette Ebbesen, Birthe D Pedersen
BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9:5 (26March2008)
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Research article
When research seems like clinical care: a qualitative study of the communication of individual cancer genetic research results
Fiona A Miller, Mita Giacomini, Catherine Ahern, Jason S Robert, Sonya de Laat
BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9:4 (22February2008)
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Research article
Ethics Review Committee approval and informed consent: an analysis of biomedical publications originating from Sri Lanka
Athula Sumathipala, Sisira Siribaddana, Suwin Hewege, Manura Lekamwattage, Manjula Athukorale, Chesmal Siriwardhana, Joanna Murray, Martin Prince
BMC Medical Ethics 2008, 9:3 (11February2008)
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Study protocol
Can patient decision aids help people make good decisions about participating in clinical trials? A study protocol
Jamie C Brehaut, Alison Lott, Dean A Fergusson, Kaveh G Shojania, Jonathan Kimmelman, Raphael Saginur
Implementation Science 2008, 3:38 (23July2008)
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Book review
Book review: Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry, by Peter Stastny and Peter Lehmann (Eds). Peter Lehmann Publishing, 2007.
Paul Hammersley
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2008, 3:18 (23July2008)
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Research
Informed consent for clinical trials in acute coronary syndromes and stroke following the European Clinical Trials Directive: investigators' experiences and attitudes
Piotr Iwanowski, Andrzej Budaj, Anna Czlonkowska, Wojciech Wasek, Beata Kozlowska-Boszko, Urszula Oledzka, Wojciech Maselbas
Trials 2008, 9:45 (21July2008)
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Editorial
Another challenge for scientists
Laura M Christian, Hassan R Naqvi, Christian Schmidt, David Covarrubias, Shawn Mathur
Molecular Cancer 2008, 7:63 (17July2008)
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Review
Dignity in the Care of Older People - A Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature
Ann Gallagher, Sarah Li, Paul Wainwright, Ian Rees Jones, Diana Lee
BMC Nursing 2008, 7:11 (11July2008)
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Editorial
On drug treatment and social control: Russian narcology's great leap backwards
Richard Elovich, Ernest Drucker
Harm Reduction Journal 2008, 5:23 (24June2008)
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Commentary
Half a gram a thousand lives
Lev Levinson
Harm Reduction Journal 2008, 5:22 (24June2008)
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Research article
Combined written and oral information prior to gastrointestinal endoscopy compared with oral information alone: a randomized trial
Christian Felley, Thomas V Perneger, Isabelle Goulet, Catherine Rouillard, Nadereh Azar-Pey, Gian Dorta, Antoine Hadengue, Jean-Louis Frossard
BMC Gastroenterology 2008, 8:22 (3June2008)
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Commentary
The beginning of the end for chimpanzee experiments?
Andrew Knight
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2008, 3:16 (2June2008)
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Book review
Malaria eradication in Mexico: Some historico-parasitological views on Cold war, deadly fevers by Marcos Cueto, Ph.D
Filiberto Malagn
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2008, 3:15 (2June2008)
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