Clinical Ethics Consultation: Examining how American and Japanese experts analyze an Alzheimer's case
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Clinical Ethics Consultation: Examining how American and Japanese experts analyze an Alzheimer's case
BACKGROUND Few comparative studies of clinical ethics consultation practices have been reported. The objective of this study was to explore how American and Japanese experts analyze an Alzheimer's case regarding ethics consultation. METHODS We presented the case to physicians and ethicists from the US and Japan (one expert from each field from both countries; total = 4) and obtained their res...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Ethics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1472-6939
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-9-2