US clinicians' experiences and perspectives on resource limitation and patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic

CR Butler, SPY Wong, AG Wightman… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Little is known about how US clinicians have responded to resource limitation
during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Objective To describe the …

Vaccine ethics: an ethical framework for global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines

NS Jecker, AG Wightman, DS Diekema - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
This paper addresses the just distribution of vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus and
sets forth an ethical framework that prioritises frontline and essential workers, people at high …

Update on ethical issues in pediatric dialysis: has pediatric dialysis become morally obligatory?

AG Wightman, MA Freeman - … Journal of the American Society of …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Improvements in pediatric dialysis over the past 50 years have made the decision to
proceed with dialysis straightforward for the majority of pediatric patients. For certain groups …

[HTML][HTML] Prioritizing frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

NS Jecker, AG Wightman… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
COVID-19 has sickened more than one million people and outpaced the capacity of
hospitals around the world to meet demand for vital medical resources, such as ventilators …

An ethical analysis of obesity as a contraindication of pediatric kidney transplant candidacy

ER Berkman, KL Richardson, JD Clark, AAS Dick… - Pediatric …, 2023 - Springer
The inclusion of body mass index (BMI) as a criterion for determining kidney transplant
candidacy in children raises clinical and ethical challenges. Childhood obesity is on the rise …

Experiences of US clinicians contending with health care resource scarcity during the COVID-19 pandemic, December 2020 to December 2021

CR Butler, AG Wightman, JS Taylor, JL Hick… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The second year of the COVID-19 pandemic saw periods of dire health care
resource limitations in the US, sometimes prompting official declarations of crisis, but little is …

[HTML][HTML] Psychiatric diagnoses in children with CKD compared to the general population

JL Stahl, AG Wightman, JE Flythe, NS Weiss… - Kidney Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Rationale & Objective Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are subject to physical
and psychosocial challenges, which may confer greater risk of developing psychiatric …

From protection to entitlement: selecting research subjects for early phase clinical trials involving breakthrough therapies

NS Jecker, AG Wightman, AR Rosenberg… - Journal of medical …, 2017 - jme.bmj.com
Our goals are to (1) set forth and defend a multiprinciple system for selecting individuals who
meet trial eligibility criteria to participate in early phase clinical trials testing chimeric antigen …

Beyond Autonomy: Ethics of Decision Making About Treatments for Kidney Failure at the Extremes of Age

CR Butler, AG Wightman - American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2023 - Elsevier
Decisions around initiating and forgoing treatments for kidney failure are complex, and
contemporary approaches to medical decision making are designed to uphold patients' own …

An ethical analysis of obesity as a contraindication to pediatric liver transplant candidacy

ER Berkman, EK Hsu, JD Clark, M Lewis-Newby… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Childhood obesity is becoming more prevalent in the United States (US) and worldwide,
including among children in need of a liver transplant. Unlike with heart and kidney failure …