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Papers

Clinical ethics

• Ethical considerations for classifying patients as ‘palliative’ when calculating Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (6 July, 2010)

  James Downar, Robert Sibbald, Neil M Lazar
• Informing family members about a hereditary predisposition to cancer: attitudes and practices among clinical geneticists (6 July, 2010)

  Yrrah H Stol, Fred H Menko, Marjan J Westerman, Rien M J P A Janssens
• Life-prolonging treatment in nursing homes: how do physicians and nurses describe and justify their own practice? (16 June, 2010)

  A Dreyer, R Førde, P Nortvedt

Law, ethics and medicine

• The making and breaking of paternity secrets in donor insemination (6 July, 2010)

  Lyn Turney
• Quality of consent form completion in orthopaedics: are we just going through the motions? (6 July, 2010)

  Luckshmana Jeyaseelan, Jonathan Ward, Madhavan Papanna, Sabapathy Sundararajan
• Deliberative ethics in a biomedical institution: an example of integration between science and ethics (6 July, 2010)

  G Boniolo, P P Di Fiore

Research ethics

• Analysis of the status of informed consent in medical research involving human subjects in public hospitals in Shanghai (6 July, 2010)

  Wang Jianping, Lan Li, Di Xue, Zhongjin Tang, Xieyang Jia, Rong Wu, Yiqun Xi, Tong Wang, Ping Zhou
• Acceptable risks and burdens for children in research without direct benefit: a systematic analysis of the decisions made by the Dutch Central Committee (6 July, 2010)

  Anna E Westra, Rám N Sukhai, Jan M Wit, Inez D de Beaufort, Adam F Cohen
• Research ethics in dissertations: ethical issues and complexity of reasoning (6 July, 2010)

  S Kjellström, S N Ross, B Fridlund
• Discrepancies between research advertisements and disclosure of study locations in trial registrations for USA-sponsored research in Russia (6 July, 2010)

  D Patrone
• Non-equivalent stringency of ethical review in the Baltic States: a sign of a systematic problem in Europe? (6 July, 2010) Free

  E Gefenas, V Dranseika, A Cekanauskaite, K Hug, S Mezinska, E Peicius, V Silis, A Soosaar, M Strosberg

Genetics

• Whole-genome association studies for multigenic diseases: ethical dilemmas arising from commercialization—the case of genetic testing for autism (16 June, 2010)

  Bertrand R Jordan, Daniel Fu Chang Tsai