Background: Ethics support services are growing in Europe to help doctors in dealing with
ethical difficulties. Currently, insufficient attention has been focused on the experiences of …

BACKGROUND: Bedside rationing by physicians is controversial. The debate, however, is
clouded by lack of information regarding the extent and character of bedside rationing …

Clinical ethics support services are developing in Europe. They will be most useful if they
are designed to match the ethical concerns of clinicians. We conducted a cross-sectional …

Background In response to limited resources, health care systems have adopted diverse
cost-containment strategies and give priority to differing types of interventions. The …

Italian guidelines on living donation demand that we ascertain the donor's free and informed
consent. Assessments to do so have to be conducted by an independent 'third party'who has …

Organoid technologies are rapidly advancing and hold great potential and hope for disease
modeling and clinical translational research. Still, they raise a number of complex, ethical …

Clinical ethics has developed significantly in Europe over the past 15 years and remains an
evolving process. While sharing our experiences in different European settings, we were …

Background: Although their benefits are controversial, artificial nutrition and hydration are
often administered as a form of basic care to terminally ill patients. An important reason for …

Methods An ad hoc questionnaire was prepared to measure levels of communication and
administered to 716 professionals (181 physicians, 454 nurses and 81 psychologists) …

Aim: The aim of the present study was to investigate the proportion of physicians and nurses
who agree with the administration of antibiotic therapy (AT), artificial hydration (AH), and …