providing a perfect instruction to authors can prevent most potential publication ethics errors. this study was conducted to determine the quality of ethical considerations in the instructions to the authors of iranian research scientific journals of medical sciences (accredited by the commission for accreditation and improvement of iranian medical journals) in october 2011. checklist items (n=...

during medical training, students obtain enough skills and knowledge. however, medical ethics accomplishes its goals when, together with training medical courses, it guides students behavior towards morality so that ethics-oriented medical practice is internalized. medical ethics is a branch of applied ethics which tries to introduce ethics into physicians’ practice and ethical decisions; thus,...

A code of ethics is used by individuals to justify their actions within an environment. Medical professionals require a keen understanding of specific ethical codes due to the potential consequences of their actions. Over the past thirty years there has been an increase in the scope and depth of ethics instruction in the medical profession; however the teaching of these codes is still highly va...

OBJECTIVE This paper uses an economic model to compare three methods for stimulating quality improvement: payment incentives, competition for patients, and emphasis on professional ethics. DESIGN Use an economic model to simulate the impact on quality distortions (risk selection) of differences in payment incentives, competition for patients, and emphasis on professional ethics. SETTING Hea...

OBJECTIVES To describe the fate of protocols approved by the French research ethics committees, a national system created by the French 1988 Huriet-Sérusclat Act; to assess publication bias at a national level. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Representative sample of 25/48 French research ethics committees in 1994. PROTOCOLS: 649 research protocols approved by committees, with fo...

Ethics committee and ethics consultants are among the more interesting phenomena associated with bioethics. Although in some respects both reach back to the ancient origins of medical ethics, in other ways they are reflections of a ‘postmodern’ society that seeks moral resolutions while remaining agnostic about substantive moral absolutes. In the present article I shall describe the history of ...

background: in the recent years, new medical technologies and their probable misusing have emerged public concerns about medical ethics. medical ethics is a practical discipline that provides a structured approach for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues in clinical medicine. methods: in this study we reviewed some new methods of teaching medical ethics in other countries by sea...

An Ethics Opinion reflects the interpretation or application of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Academy)/Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)Codeof Ethics for the Profession of Dietetics by the Ethics Committee. This interpretation or application by the Ethics Committee is in response to a specific ethics issue facing the Registered Dietitian/Nutrition (RDN) or Dietetic Technician,...