The Ethics of Using QI Methods to Improve Healt...

This report from The Hastings Center explores the ethical dimensions of efforts to make health care safer and better through continuous improvements in patient care, with special attention to the r...

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Reprogenetics and Public Policy: Reflections an...

This report discusses how new techniques at the intersection of reproductive medicine and genetics raise complex ethical questions that should not be resolved by a largely unregulated market. Rathe...

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Promoting Patient Safety: An Ethical Basis for ...

In 2000, the Institute of Medicine reported that as many as 98,000 Americans die each year as the result of medical error. This special report on patient safety seeks to foster clearer and better i...

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Patents, Biomedical Research, and Treatments: E...

This report examines the debates over patenting biomedical research and treatments, focusing on how those debates play out in the patenting of inventions involving genes and stem cells and the pate...

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The Five People You Meet in a Pandemic - and Wh...

The “five people” described in this document are representative community members who are first responders. Each will have particular duties during a pandemic. Each will rely on planners to anticip...

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Improving End of Life Care: Why Has It Been So ...

This report contains 10 essays that present a synoptic overview of the most important developments in end-of-life decisionmaking and take stock of their successes or failures. The essays also provi...

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Genetic Differences and Human Identities

This four-part report aims to help readers understand what geneticists believe they have discovered about how genetic differences are related to observed, or "phenotypic," differences. It also help...

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Ethics and Trusteeship for Health Care

Serving on a hospital's board of trustees requires confronting a variety of difficult ethical problems that are almost never discussed and rarely recognized even by trustees themselves. This supple...

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Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, O...

This report looks at issues of social justice, access, and public policy in hospice and palliative care. As it examines the issues from the perspectives of social justice and fairness, it also reco...

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Deciding to Forego TX

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Compensating for Research Injuries

I I I I I Table of Contents Volume One: Report I I I Summary and Conclusions The Question at Issue Alternative Responses to Inconclusive Data The Reconunended Experhnent The Format ...

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Appendix Ethical Guidelines

APPENDIX TO ETHICAL GUIDELIN S FOR THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH SERVICES BYDHEW THE NATIONAL COMMlSSION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS OF BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH APPENDIX ...

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Whistle Blowing

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Splicing Life

United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Splicing Life: A Report on the Social and Ethical Issues of Genetic Engin...

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Securing Access

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Research Involving Prisoners

-- -_._-------- --_._. - - --- -------------- -----~--- -------- ~---~ ------ --------- ~- --- Report and Recommendations Research Involving Prisoners The National Commis...

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Research Involving Children

REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS Research Involving Children THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS OF 810M EDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH REPORT AND RECOMM ENDAT...

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Psycho Surgery

REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS PSYCHOSURGERY THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS OF BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH ...

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Protecting Human Subjects

-- - - - - - ~ - - - --- Protecting Human Subjects The ,Adequ,a,cy and Uniformity of Federal Rules and their Implementation ., . . . . President's Commisston for the ...

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Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research

ETHICAL ISSUES IN HUMAN STEM CELL RESEARCH VOLUME III Religious Perspectives Rockville, Maryland June 2000 The National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) was established by Executive Order 12...

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