Telebalancing: ethical questions in telemonitoring aimed at prevention

Ethical Questions about Platelet Transfusions at the End of Life.

This case of platelet transfusion in palliative care illustrates a common dilemma in transfusion medicine: approval of the use of a scarce, yet potentially life-saving, resource. As in this case, these decisions often involve seriously ill patients with acute needs and evolving goals of care. The use of resources to treat the patient at hand must be balanced against maintaining adequate resourc...

Ethical questions about peer review.

SIR Your editorial in the March 1992 issue (1), is in my opinion something of a landmark and a positive, favourable one in the history of scholarly communication. In effect, you are urging the medical research community to take seriously a paper that leading peer review authorities rejected (for one reason or another) for publication. The peer review authority rejection might be characterised a...

Training aimed at nurses

Ethical questions and dilemmas in psychotherapy

BACKGROUND: The authors emphasize the importance of regular questioning of ethical dilemmas in psychotherapy, because of the special status of psychological treatment as a potentially hazardous field in practice, and because of substantial relationship between client and therapist with a thin border and potential use of power or abuse. Although professional codes indicate guidance on highest po...

Ethical Guidelines for Cyber-related Services Aimed at the Younger Generations

Ethics together with the law should be able to govern the tendencies of cyber users in order to create a virtual world with disciplined users. One of the major challenges in achieving such outcomes is the lack of a solid ethical base, specifically with the Younger Generation. The way in which the Internet is used by this generation not only affects them personally but also in their professional...