Methods Controlled, prospective, monocentric observational study. We included 30 mechanically ventilated, critically ill patients (SOFA score ≥ 8 at 3 within 5 days after ICU admission). Two open muscle biopsies (M. vastus lateralis) were obtained at median day 5 and 16. Electron microscope studies were performed and counting of myosin filaments in cross section was done using Image J Software....

INTRODUCTION Failure to comply with work ethics by employees working in Health Information Technology (HIT) Departments and their negative attitudes about organizational justice may have an adverse impact on patient satisfaction, quality of care, collecting health statistics, reimbursement, and management and planning at all levels of health care; it can also lead to unbearable damages to the h...

Telemedicine, through its advantages based on the synergic action of medicine, electronics and computers technologies, offers the facilities to support and to improve the quality of life and to facilitate rapid transfer of information at the distance for medical intervention, emergency situation or home care. The study indicated the knowledge and perception of your people (students in the first...

Carol Gilligan is associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her 1982 book, In a Different Voice, presents a theory of moral development which claims that women tend to think and speak in a different way than men when they confront ethical dilemmas. Gilligan contrasts a feminine ethic of care with a masculine ethic of justice. She believes that these gender di...

This article discusses the possibility of an economic foundation for a work and savings ethic. In particular, James M. Buchanan has, in his late works, endorsed traditional ‘Puritan’ demands for working and saving more, while arguing that this is beneficial for all members of a society. I will question Buchanan’s analysis of the ‘Puritan’ ethic both in normative and methodological respects befo...

In response to a new ethics framework for forensic publishing, this commentary invites speculation on how the framework will develop to incorporate the theories of its authors. Although medical ethics may now be an established cornerstone for forensic practice, it is in the more novel theories of cultural narrative, compassion, and robust professionalism that this new ethic will find its full e...

After 133 days of long debates, the trial of twenty three Nazi doctors ended in Nuremberg on 21 August 1947. 1 Seven of the doctors were sentenced to death, five to life imprisonment, two to 20 years imprisonment, two to 10 years imprisonment, and seven were discharged. On the very eve of the announcements of the sentences, 10 essential principles that should in future govern every human experi...

Background: An important issue for organizations is to identify factors related to job motivation and use these factors to increase the level of enthusiasm of their employees. The purpose of this study is to explain the effect of ethical leadership and organizational justice on job motivation by emphasizing the mediating role of work ethic. Methods: The present study was descriptive-correlatio...

the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between islamic work ethic and job satisfaction, organizational commitment and desertion in iran ministry of sport and youth experts. the correlation-descriptive method was used in this study which was conducted as a field. the statistic populations consisted of 290 ministry of sport and youth experts. 165 subjects were selected as the sampl...