BMC Medical Ethics

Article	Citations
The role of bioethics services in paediatric intensive care units: a qualitative descriptive study	297
Clinical ethics consultation documentation in the era of open notes	164
Disparity in attitudes regarding assisted dying among physicians and the general public in Japan	95
A comparative ethical analysis of the Egyptian clinical research law	63
Are investigators’ access to trial data and rights to publish restricted and are potential trial participants informed about this? A comparison of trial protocols and informed consent materials	62
Dialysis decisions concerning cognitively impaired adults: a scoping literature review	54
Motivation to participate and experiences of the informed consent process for randomized clinical trials in emergency obstetric care in Uganda	45
Challenges and proposed solutions in making clinical research on COVID-19 ethical: a status quo analysis across German research ethics committees	38
Current status of umbilical cord blood storage and provision to private biobanks by institutions handling childbirth in Japan	36
Severity as a moral qualifier of malady	32
When is it considered reasonable to start a risky and uncomfortable treatment in critically ill patients? A random sample online questionnaire study	32
Ethics support for ethics support: the development of the Confidentiality Compass for dealing with moral challenges concerning (breaching) confidentiality in moral case deliberation	28
A logic framework for addressing medical racism in academic medicine: an analysis of qualitative data	27
Normative framework of informed consent in clinical research in Germany, Poland, and Russia	27
Attitudes toward withholding antibiotics from people with dementia lacking decisional capacity: findings from a survey of Canadian stakeholders	26
Effectiveness of data auditing as a tool to reinforce good research data management (RDM) practice: a Singapore study	26
Ethics knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of tertiary care pediatricians in Ethiopia	23
The view of Hong Kong parents on secondary use of dried blood spots in newborn screening program	23
Medical assistance in dying for people living with mental disorders: a qualitative thematic review	23
Ethical considerations for involving adolescents in biomedical HIV prevention research	23
To donate or not to donate? Future healthcare professionals’ opinions on biobanking of human biological material for research purposes	23
Cross-sectional survey of surrogate decision-making in Japanese medical practice	21
The red packet phenomenon from the perspective of young Chinese doctors: a questionnaire study	20
Children as an afterthought during COVID-19: defining a child-inclusive ethical framework for pandemic policymaking	19
Uses of equipoise in discussions of the ethics of randomized controlled trials of COVID-19 therapies	19

Ethical and practical considerations for HIV cure-related research at the end-of-life: a qualitative interview and focus group study in the United States	18
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study	18
Inter-physician variability in strategies linked to treatment limitations after severe traumatic brain injury; proactivity or wait-and-see	18
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review	18
Layered vulnerability and researchers’ responsibilities: learning from research involving Kenyan adolescents living with perinatal HIV infection	17
Participatory development of CURA, a clinical ethics support instrument for palliative care	17
Increasing physician participation as subjects in scientific and quality improvement research	17
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV	17
UK health researchers’ considerations of the environmental impacts of their data-intensive practices and its relevance to health inequities	17
Perceptions on using surplus embryos for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease among the Swedish population: a qualitative study	16
Perceptions, attitudes, and willingness of the public in low- and middle-income countries of the Arab region to participate in biobank research	16
Negative performance feedback from algorithms or humans? effect of medical researchers’ algorithm aversion on scientific misconduct	16
Perspectives of agriculture, nutrition and health researchers regarding research governance in Malawi. Using a leadership, ethics, governance and systems framework	16
Electronic informed consent criteria for research ethics review: a scoping review	16
Goods, causes and intentions: problems with applying the doctrine of double effect to palliative sedation	16
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension	15
Japan should initiate the discussion on voluntary assisted dying legislation now	15
Something must happen before first breath	15
Physicians’ views on the role of relatives in euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide decision-making: a mixed-methods study among physicians in the Netherlands	15
What are the views of Quebec and Ontario citizens on the tiebreaker criteria for prioritizing access to adult critical care in the extreme context of a COVID-19 pandemic?	15
Frankenstein; or, the modern Prometheus: a classic novel to stimulate the analysis of complex contemporary issues in biomedical sciences	15
Culturally appropriate consent processes for community-driven indigenous child health research: a scoping review	15
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia	14
Refusal of patients: care for people without health insurance in German emergency departments	14
Childhood vaccine refusal and what to do about it: a systematic review of the ethical literature	14
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study	14
Using practical wisdom to facilitate ethical decision-making: a major empirical study of phronesis in the decision narratives of doctors	14
Patient privacy and autonomy: a comparative analysis of cases of ethical dilemmas in China and the United States	14
General practitioner residents and patients end-of life: involvement and consequences	14
What does engagement mean to participants in longitudinal cohort studies? A qualitative study	14
A Q methodology study on divergent perspectives on CRISPR-Cas9 in the Netherlands	14
Trust and professionalism in science: medical codes as a model for scientific negligence?	14
(Re)Conceptualising ‘good’ proxy decision-making for research: the implications for proxy consent decision quality	13
Health equity and distributive justice: views of high-level African policymakers	13
Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: an interview study with mental health service users and professionals in the Netherlands	13
Privacy and artificial intelligence: challenges for protecting health information in a new era	13
Ethical preparedness in health research and care: the role of behavioural approaches	13
'Some parts of the consent form are written using complex scientific language’: community perspectives on informed consent for research with pregnant and lactating mothers in Uganda	13
The theorisation of ‘best interests’ in bioethical accounts of decision-making	12
Caring for older patients with reduced decision-making capacity: a deductive exploratory study of ambulance clinicians’ ethical competence	12
Why should HCWs receive priority access to vaccines in a pandemic?	12
Health workers’ perspectives on informed consent for caesarean section in Southern Malawi	12
A scoping review of considerations and practices for benefit sharing in biobanking	12
Experts’ moral views on gene drive technologies: a qualitative interview study	12
Do biomedical researchers differ in their perceptions of plagiarism across Europe? Findings from an online survey among leading universities	12
Can HIV vaccines be shared fairly? Perspectives from Tanzania	12
A qualitative interview study of Australian physicians on defensive practice and low value care: “it’s easier to talk about our fear of lawyers than to talk about our fear of looking bad in front of e	12
COVID-19 underscores the important role of Clinical Ethics Committees in Africa	11
Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees	11
A bioethical perspective on the meanings behind a wish to hasten death: a meta-ethnographic review	11

The ethics of explantation	11
From ontological to relational: A scoping review of conceptions of dignity invoked in deliberations on medically assisted death	11
How to deal with moral challenges around the decision-making competence in transgender adolescent care? Development of an ethics support tool	11
Ethical considerations related to virtual visiting for families and critically ill patients in intensive care: a qualitative descriptive study	11
Mapping ethical issues in the use of smart home health technologies to care for older persons: a systematic review	11
Correction to: Under consent: participation of people with HIV in an Ebola vaccine trial in Canada	10
Parental awareness and perspectives on newborn screening in China: a questionnaire-based study	10
Ethics framework for citizen science and public and patient participation in research	10
Secondary research use of personal medical data: patient attitudes towards data donation	10
Correction to: Data-driven research and healthcare: public trust, data governance and the NHS	10
Ethics review of big data research: What should stay and what should be reformed?	10
Medical students’ and residents’ views on euthanasia	10
Trust and digital privacy in healthcare: a cross-sectional descriptive study of trust and attitudes towards uses of electronic health data among the general public in Sweden	10
Does teaching medical ethics ensure good knowledge, attitude, and reported practice? An ethical vignette-based cross-sectional survey among doctors in a tertiary teaching hospital in Nepal	10
Regulating professional ethics in a context of technological change	10
‘I feel that injustice is being done to me’: a qualitative study of women’s viewpoints on the (lack of) reimbursement for social egg freezing	10
An ethical analysis of clinical triage protocols and decision-making frameworks: what do the principles of justice, freedom, and a disability rights approach demand of us?	10
Being torn by inevitable moral dilemma: experiences of ICU nurses	9
Oncologists’ perspective on advance directives, a French national prospective cross-sectional survey – the ADORE study	9
Situational judgment using ethical reasoning in Saudi undergraduate pharmacy students	9
Extremely premature birth bioethical decision-making supported by dialogics and pragmatism	9
Community engagement conduct for genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders in Uganda	9
The effects of lobbying on the FDA’s recall classification	9
Navigating ethics in HIV data and biomaterial management within Black, African, and Caribbean communities in Canada	9
“Everything has been tried and his heart can’t recover…”: A Descriptive Review of “Do Everything!” in the Archive of Ontario Consent and Capacity Board	9
Evaluating the understanding of the ethical and moral challenges of Big Data and AI among Jordanian medical students, physicians in training, and senior practitioners: a cross-sectional study	9
A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives on the ethics of medically-delivered safer injection education for people who inject drugs	9
Gender differences in response to medical red packets (Hongbao, monetary gifts): a questionnaire study on young doctors in China	9
Physician-reported characteristics, representations, and ethical justifications of shared decision-making practices in the care of paediatric patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness	9
A systematic approach to the disclosure of genomic findings in clinical practice and research: a proposed framework with colored matrix and decision-making pathways	8
The future of FemTech ethics & privacy – a global perspective	8
Is there a need for a clear advice? A retrospective comparative analysis of ethics consultations with and without recommendations in a maximum-care university hospital	8
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the ethics in medical research among Moroccan interns and resident physicians	8
Uncertain futures and unsolicited findings in pediatric genomic sequencing: guidelines for return of results in cases of developmental delay	8
Where the public health principles meet the individual: a framework for the ethics of compulsory outpatient treatment in psychiatry	8
“I feel like I’m walking on eggshells”: a qualitative study of moral distress among Chinese emergency doctors	8
An ethical code for collecting, using and transferring sensitive health data: outcomes of a modified Policy Delphi process in Singapore	8
Medical staff’s sense of awareness of informed consent for adolescent cancer patients and the need for decision-making support practiced from the perspective of trauma-informed approach	8
Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement	8
Priority setting at the clinical level: the case of nusinersen and the Norwegian national expert group	8
A qualitative interview study to determine barriers and facilitators of implementing automated decision support tools for genomic data access	8
Making complex decisions in uncertain times: experiences of Dutch GPs as gatekeepers regarding hospital referrals during COVID-19—a qualitative study	8
Opportunities and challenges of a dynamic consent-based application: personalized options for personal health data sharing and utilization	8
“I haven’t had to bare my soul but now I kind of have to”: describing how voluntary assisted dying conscientious objectors anticipated approaching conversations with patients in Victoria, Australia	8
Promoting trans patient autonomy in surgical preparation for phalloplasty and metoidioplasty: results from a community-based cross-sectional survey and implications for preoperative assessments	8
Project DECIDE, part 1: increasing the amount of valid advance directives in people with Alzheimer’s disease by offering advance care planning—a prospective double-arm intervention study	8
Would you consider donating your left-over embryos to treat Parkinson’s disease? Interviews with individuals that underwent IVF in Sweden	8
Parental waivers to enable adolescent participation in certain forms of health research: lessons from a South African case study	8
A scoping review of genetics and genomics research ethics policies and guidelines for Africa	8
Shared decision making and advance care planning: a systematic literature review and novel decision-making model	7
Ethics education to support ethical competence learning in healthcare: an integrative systematic review	7
Researchers experience and views on participants’ comprehension of informed consent in clinical trials in Malawi: a descriptive qualitative study	7
Biomedical engineering and ethics: reflections on medical devices and PPE during the first wave of COVID-19	7
Ethics, design, and implementation criteria of digital assistive technologies for people with dementia from a multiple stakeholder perspective: a qualitative study	7
Attitudes and values among the Swedish general public to using human embryonic stem cells for medical treatment	7
Governance frameworks for COVID-19 research ethics review and oversight in Latin America: an exploratory study	7
Artificial intelligence for good health: a scoping review of the ethics literature	7
“I don’t think people are ready to trust these algorithms at face value”: trust and the use of machine learning algorithms in the diagnosis of rare disease	7
A situation analysis of competences of research ethics committee members regarding review of research protocols with complex and emerging study designs in Uganda	7
Ethical considerations around volunteer payments in a malaria human infection study in Kenya: an embedded empirical ethics study	7
Should biomedical research with great apes be restricted? A systematic review of reasons	7
Development, reliability, and validity of the nurses’ conscientious objection attitude scale (COAS-N)	6
Ethical and coordinative challenges in setting up a national cohort study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	6
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and ethical design: public perceptions of trustworthiness of an AI-based decision-support tool in the context of intrapartum care	6
Experimenting with modifications to consent forms in comparative effectiveness research: understanding the impact of language about financial implications and key information	6
Reporting violations of European Charter of Patients’ Rights: analysis of patient complaints in Croatia	6
The CORBEL matrix on informed consent in clinical studies: a multidisciplinary approach of Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science Services	6
The Swedish translation and cultural adaptation of the Measure of Moral Distress for Healthcare Professionals (MMD-HP)	6
Assessment of decision-making autonomy in chronic pain patients: a pilot study	6
‘It’s not making a decision, it’s prompting the discussions’: a qualitative study exploring stakeholders’ views on the acceptability and feasibility of advance research planning (CONSULT-ADVANCE)	6
Enhancing intercultural competence of German medical students through innovative teaching on medical ethics with a focus on Muslim patients – a pilot study	6
Exploring how biobanks communicate the possibility of commercial access and its associated benefits and risks in participant documents	6
Transparency of clinical practice guideline funding: a cross-sectional analysis of the German AWMF registry	6
Clinical ethics case consultation in a university department of cardiology and intensive care: a descriptive evaluation of consultation protocols	6
The use of personal health information outside the circle of care: consent preferences of patients from an academic health care institution	6
Exploring moral competence regression: a narrative approach in medical ethics education for medical students	6
Evaluation of an interactive education workshop on hospital pharmacists’ ethical reasoning: an observational study	6
Personalized and long-term electronic informed consent in clinical research: stakeholder views	6
Patients’ and professionals’ views related to ethical issues in precision medicine: a mixed research synthesis	6
Ethical implications of AI-driven clinical decision support systems on healthcare resource allocation: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ perspectives	6

Data-driven research and healthcare: public trust, data governance and the NHS	6
Navigating abortion law dilemmas: experiences and attitudes among Ethiopian health care professionals	6
Exploration of clinical ethics consultation in Uganda: a case study of Uganda Cancer Institute	6
Views on sharing mental health data for research purposes: qualitative analysis of interviews with people with mental illness	6
Behind the scenes of research ethics committee oversight: a qualitative research study with committee chairs in the Middle East and North Africa region	6
Exploring the consent process among pregnant and breastfeeding women taking part in a maternal vaccine clinical trial in Kampala, Uganda: a qualitative study	6
An e-consent framework for tiered informed consent for human genomic research in the global south, implemented as a REDCap template	6
Withdrawing or withholding treatments in health care rationing: an interview study on ethical views and implications	6
Asking the right questions: towards a person-centered conception of shared decision-making regarding treatment of advanced chronic kidney disease in older patients	6
Forensic mental health professionals’ perceptions of their dual loyalty conflict: findings from a qualitative study	6
Patients’ views on using human embryonic stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease: an interview study	6
Putting patients first: when home-based care staff prioritise loyalty to patients above the system and themselves. An ethnographic study	6
A policy Delphi study to validate the key implications of data sharing (KIDS) framework for pediatric genomics in Canada	5
Correction to: Regulatory, scientific, and ethical issues arising from institutional activity in one of the 90 Italian Research Ethics Committees	5
Ethical constraints and dilemmas in the provision of in-vitro fertilization treatment in Ghana: from the perspectives of experts	5
Ethics in the operating room: a systematic review	5
Exploring patients’ rights awareness and implementations amongst hospitalized patients in Northern Palestine: insights from a local perspective	5
Junior medical doctors’ decision making when using advance care directives to guide treatment for people with dementia: a cross-sectional vignette study	5
A qualitative study of experiences of institutional objection to medical assistance in dying in Canada: ongoing challenges and catalysts for change	5
Scarcity of resources and inequity in access are frequently reported ethical issues for physiotherapists internationally: an observational study	5
Consent for withholding life-sustaining treatment in cancer patients: a retrospective comparative analysis before and after the enforcement of the Life Extension Medical Decision law	5
Correction: Technology solutionism in paediatric intensive care: clinicians’ perspectives of bioethical considerations	5
Ethical use of artificial intelligence to prevent sudden cardiac death: an interview study of patient perspectives	5
Ethical issues in vaccine trial participation by adolescents: qualitative insights on family decision making from a human papillomavirus vaccine trial in Tanzania	5
Correction to: Flaws in advance directives that request withdrawing assisted feeding in late-stage dementia may cause premature or prolonged dying	5
Correction to: Mapping trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model	5
The impact of moral injury on healthcare workers’ career calling: exploring authentic self-expression, ethical leadership, and self-compassion	5
“I am in favour of organ donation, but I feel you should opt-in”—qualitative analysis of the #options 2020 survey free-text responses from NHS staff toward opt-out organ donation legislation in Englan	5
Situational vulnerability within mental healthcare – a qualitative analysis of ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
The dual role dilemma of liver transplantation health care professionals	5
Moral conflicts from the justice and care perspectives of japanese nurses: a qualitative content analysis	5
The social licence for data-intensive health research: towards co-creation, public value and trust	5
Project DECIDE, part II: decision-making places for people with dementia in Alzheimer’s disease: supporting advance decision-making by improving person-environment fit	5
Differing needs for Advance Care Planning in the Veterans Health Administration: use of latent class analysis to identify subgroups to enhance Advance Care Planning via Group Visits for veterans	5
Study protocol: the Australian genetics and life insurance moratorium—monitoring the effectiveness and response (A-GLIMMER) project	5
Ethical and practical considerations for cell and gene therapy toward an HIV cure: findings from a qualitative in-depth interview study in the United States	5
Physicians’ legal knowledge of informed consent and confidentiality. A cross-sectional study	5
Reply to reaction on ‘Organ donation after euthanasia starting at home in a patient with multiple system atrophy – case report’	5
Ethical and procedural issues for applying researcher-driven multi-national paediatric clinical trials in and outside the European Union: the challenging experience of the DEEP project	4
Research, education, ethics consultation: evaluating a Bioethics Unit in an Oncological Research Hospital	4
Patient satisfaction with surgical informed consent at Jimma Medical Center, Ethiopia	4
Radiation in an emergency situation: attempting to respect the patient’s beliefs as reported by a minor	4
Cultures and cures: neurodiversity and brain organoids	4
A genetic researcher’s devil’s dilemma: Warn relatives about their genetic risk or respect confidentiality agreements with research participants?	4
Knowledge and attitudes about end-of-life decisions, good death and principles of medical ethics among doctors in tertiary care hospitals in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study	4
Developing new ways to listen: the value of narrative approaches in empirical (bio)ethics	4
Stakeholder views on informed consent models for future use of biological samples in Malawi and South Africa	4
Development of a core outcome set for informed consent for therapy: An international key stakeholder consensus study	4
Cultural sensitivity in brain death determination: a necessity in end-of-life decisions in Japan	4
Identifying disincentives to ethics consultation requests among physicians, advance practice providers, and nurses: a quality improvement all staff survey at a tertiary academic medical center	4
Pursuing impact in research: towards an ethical approach	4
The search for the principle of justice for infertile couples: characterization of the brazilian population and bioethical discussion	4
Using symbiotic empirical ethics to explore the significance of relationships to clinical ethics: findings from the Reset Ethics research project	4
“Data makes the story come to life:” understanding the ethical and legal implications of Big Data research involving ethnic minority healthcare workers in the United Kingdom—a qualitative study	4
Consent in organ transplantation: putting legal obligations and guidelines into practice	4
Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care directives and substitute decision making for people without decision making capacity: a cross sectional survey	4
Beyond translations, perspectives for researchers to consider to enhance comprehension during consent processes for health research in sub-saharan Africa: a scoping review	4
Research based on existing clinical data and biospecimens: a systematic study of patients’ opinions	4
Ethical challenges of the healthcare transition to adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinics for adolescents and young people with HIV in Uganda	4
Perceptions of important outcomes of moral case deliberations: a qualitative study among healthcare professionals in childhood cancer care	4
Measuring moral distress in health professionals using the MMD-HP-SPA scale	4
Practice variation in the informed consent procedure for thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke: a survey among neurologists and neurology residents	4
Attitudes of Polish physicians, nurses and pharmacists towards the ethical and legal aspects of the conscience clause	4
Citizens' views on sharing their health data: the role of competence, reliability and pursuing the common good	4
Trends in Swedish physicians’ attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide: a cross-sectional study	4
Justification for requiring disclosure of diagnoses and prognoses to dying patients in saudi medical settings: a Maqasid Al-Shariah-based Islamic bioethics approach	4
Should AI allocate livers for transplant? Public attitudes and ethical considerations	4
Do-not-attempt-resuscitation orders: attitudes, perceptions and practices of Swedish physicians and nurses	4
Decision-making approaches for children with life-limiting conditions: results from a qualitative phenomenological study	4
Patients’ preference approach to overcome the moral implications of family-centred decisions in Saudi medical settings	4
Presumed post-mortem donors: the degree of information among university students	4
Family roles in informed consent from the perspective of young Chinese doctors: a questionnaire study	4
Ethics rounds in the ambulance service: a qualitative evaluation	4
The challenges of keeping clinicians unaware of their participation in a national, cluster-randomised, implementation trial	4
Ethical challenges in global research on health system responses to violence against women: a qualitative study of policy and professional perspectives	4
Ownership of individual-level health data, data sharing, and data governance	4
Facing a request for assisted death - views of Finnish physicians, a mixed method study	4
Professional and academic profile of the Brazilian research ethics committees	4
The ethical requirement of explainability for AI-DSS in healthcare: a systematic review of reasons	4
Clinical ethics consultations: a scoping review of reported outcomes	3
Perioperative medication therapy for Muslim patients in Germany undergoing oncological surgery: a retrospective study	3
Improving oncology first-in-human and Window of opportunity informed consent forms through participant feedback	3
It takes a pirate to know one: ethical hackers for healthcare cybersecurity	3
Ethical concerns in suicide research: thematic analysis of the views of human research ethics committees in Australia	3
Development and validation of the code of ethics for midwives in Iran	3
Exploring bias risks in artificial intelligence and targeted medicines manufacturing	3
Inconsistent values and algorithmic fairness: a review of organ allocation priority systems in the United States	3
Experiences and attitudes of medical professionals on treatment of end-of-life patients in intensive care units in the Republic of Croatia: a cross-sectional study	3
A quantitative study of nurses perception to advance directive in selected private and public secondary healthcare facilities in Ibadan, Nigeria	3
A qualitative focus group study on legal experts’ views regarding euthanasia requests based on an advance euthanasia directive	3
Reducing health disparities in providing care services in the intensive care unit: a critical ethnographic study	3
Nurses’ experience of nasogastric tube feeding under restraint for Anorexia Nervosa in a psychiatric hospital	3
The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions	3
Attitudes about withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide: a cross-sectional survey among the general public in Croatia	3
Empirical studies on how ethical recommendations are translated into practice: a cross-section study on scope and study objectives	3