Ethical Issues for Agencies and Service Providers

Ethical Challenges of Care and Treatment for Patients with COVID-19 in a Hospital from the Perspective of Service Providers

The rapid spread of COVID-19, lack of standard treatment, time constraints, and lack of resources are challenges around the world. Considering the importance of ethics in providing care to patients with emerging diseases, this study was conducted to explain the ethical challenges in care and treatment for patients with COVID-19. The present study was conducted by qualitative content analysis du...

Buying and selling human eggs: infertility providers’ ethical and other concerns regarding egg donor agencies

BACKGROUND Egg donor agencies are increasingly being used as part of IVF in the US, but are essentially unregulated, posing critical ethical and policy questions concerning how providers view and use them, and what the implications might be. METHODS Thirty-seven in-depth interviews of approximately 1 h were conducted - with 27 IVF providers and 10 patients. RESULTS Clinicians vary in their ...

Software as a Service (SaaS) ethical issues

Web Service Providers\' Game on Price and Service Level

  Response time is one of the critical web service quality dimensions. It refers to how long it takes that a web service responds to request of a user. In order to manage the response time, pricing schemes can work as an efficient access control mechanism. In this paper, we study competition between two providers offering functionally same web services where there is a monopoly service provider...

Issues for service providers: a response to points raised.

The issue of abortion has evolved since 1967. In this paper, the shift in the discourses of abortion are discussed. The article suggests that abortion is used as a "back-up" method of family planning and that this is broadly acceptable. Although there is little public opposition to abortion as such, there are influences that undermine abortion provision as it now exists. Growing concern about t...