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Papers

Clinical ethics

• Paper: Predictors of hospitalised patients' preferences for physician-directed medical decision-making (22 June, 2011)

  Grace S Chung, Ryan E Lawrence, Farr A Curlin, Vineet Arora, David O Meltzer
• Paper: Physicians' Ethics Forum: a web-based ethics consultation service (29 June, 2011)

  Pekka Louhiala, Samuli Saarni, Katri Hietala, Amos Pasternack
• Paper: Findings from a Delphi exercise regarding conflicts of interests, general practitioners and safeguarding children: ‘Listen carefully, judge slowly’ (21 November, 2011)

  Ann Gallagher, Paul Wainwright, Hilary Tompsett, Christine Atkins
• Paper: Elderly patients' and residents' perceptions of ‘the good nurse’: a literature review (29 October, 2011)

  Elisa Van der Elst, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé, Chris Gastmans

Global medical ethics

• Paper: Academic freedom and global health (7 July, 2011)

  Donald Evans

Research ethics

• Paper: Discrepancy between participants' understanding and desire to know in informed consent: are they informed about what they really want to know? (27 June, 2011)

  Jiwon Koh, Eurah Goh, Kyung-Sang Yu, Belong Cho, Jeong Hee Yang
• Paper: Informed consent for clinical trials of deep brain stimulation in psychiatric disease: challenges and implications for trial design (16 June, 2011)

  Nir Lipsman, Peter Giacobbe, Mark Bernstein, Andres M Lozano
• Paper: What do patients expect from their physicians? Qualitative research on the ethical aspects of patient statements (20 June, 2011)

  Mehmet Çetin, Muharrem Uçar, Tolga Güven, Adnan Ataç, Mustafa Özer
• Paper: A randomised controlled trial of ribavirin in Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever: ethical considerations (12 October, 2011)

  B Arda, A Aciduman, J C Johnston

Teaching and learning ethics

• Paper: How to write a systematic review of reasons (11 November, 2011)

  Daniel Strech, Neema Sofaer