BMC Medical Ethics

Article	Citations
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study	128
Understanding clinical ethics situations: a co-created repertoire of practices	86
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study	74
Incognito standardized patients for studying healthcare stigma: partial deception and other ethical challenges	72
The ethics of simplification: balancing patient autonomy, comprehension, and accuracy in AI-generated radiology reports	71
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV	61
Return of health research findings in Nigeria-perspective of potential research participants	60
Community engagement conduct for genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders in Uganda	58
Increasing physician participation as subjects in scientific and quality improvement research	56
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?	54
The face of the other in the clinic: reframing patient impoliteness through phenomenological ethics in provider-patient communication	52
Management discussion of laws and regulations on human genetic resources in China: a scoping review	51
A scoping review of human genetic resources management policies and databases in high- and middle-low-income countries	49
Sacred choices and willing hearts: exploring spiritual beliefs in body donation - a cross-sectional study of Nigerian medical and allied health students	48
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension	47
Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees	45
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia	41
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review	39
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	38
A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives on the ethics of medically-delivered safer injection education for people who inject drugs	38
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	36
Opportunities for a national genomic data governance framework in Australia: a systematic review	36
Putting patients first: when home-based care staff prioritise loyalty to patients above the system and themselves. An ethnographic study	35
Awareness, attitudes, and educational needs regarding the life-sustaining treatment decision-making act in Korea among healthcare providers and medical students: a comparative analysis	35
Uncertain futures and unsolicited findings in pediatric genomic sequencing: guidelines for return of results in cases of developmental delay	33

The last human touch: why AI doesn’t belong in life’s defining moments	32
Moral distress and turnover intention in deceased donor organ procurement teams in Serbia: a cross-sectional study	28
Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement	28
Readability of health research informed consent forms: case of the National Health Research Ethics Committee in Tanzania	28
Correction to: Mapping trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model	27
A systematic scoping review and interpretive ethical synthesis of ethical decision-making about physical restraints for older adults in Confucian-influenced care contexts	27
From chaos to symbiosis: exploring adaptive co-evolution strategies for generative AI and research integrity systems	26
Promoting trans patient autonomy in surgical preparation for phalloplasty and metoidioplasty: results from a community-based cross-sectional survey and implications for preoperative assessments	26
Legal and ethical conflicts in hospital settings: thematic synthesis of qualitative studies focused on nursing practice	25
The dual role dilemma of liver transplantation health care professionals	24
Behind the scenes of research ethics committee oversight: a qualitative research study with committee chairs in the Middle East and North Africa region	24
Ethical use of artificial intelligence to prevent sudden cardiac death: an interview study of patient perspectives	24
The search for the principle of justice for infertile couples: characterization of the brazilian population and bioethical discussion	23
Implicit ethical choices in ultra-rare therapy development: researchers’ perspectives on patient selection and communication, therapy value, and accessibility	23
A qualitative focus group study on legal experts’ views regarding euthanasia requests based on an advance euthanasia directive	22
Physicians’ legal knowledge of informed consent and confidentiality. A cross-sectional study	22
The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions	22
Ethical analysis of the European normative framework on fertility preservation	21
How to deal with the criterion of severe mental distress for late termination of pregnancy? A scoping literature review and a content analysis of clinical ethics consultations	21
Measuring moral distress in health professionals using the MMD-HP-SPA scale	20
Moral approval of xenotransplantation in Egypt: associations with religion, attitudes towards animals and demographic factors	20
Professional and academic profile of the Brazilian research ethics committees	20
A quantitative study of nurses perception to advance directive in selected private and public secondary healthcare facilities in Ibadan, Nigeria	19
Investigating ethical considerations in the communication network of married women undergone hysterectomy: instrumentation of a questionnaire	19
Exploring knowledge and attitudes toward electronic informed consent among clinical trial participants in China: a cross-sectional study	19
Family roles in informed consent from the perspective of young Chinese doctors: a questionnaire study	18
Descriptions of risks and benefits of HIV vaccine trials in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs): an integrative review	18
Research Ethics Committees (RECs) perspectives on large language models and AI ethics review: a South African case	18
Ethical perspectives of Brazilian community pharmacists: a pilot study	18
Clinical ethics consultations: a scoping review of reported outcomes	18
Ethics rounds in the ambulance service: a qualitative evaluation	18
Ownership of individual-level health data, data sharing, and data governance	17
Should AI allocate livers for transplant? Public attitudes and ethical considerations	17
Patient autonomy in inpatient medical rehabilitation in Germany—study protocol of a multicenter cross-sectional study	16
Patient-centered empirical research on ethically relevant psychosocial and cultural aspects of cochlear, glaucoma and cardiovascular implants – a scoping review	16
European stakeholders’ views on ethics aspects of patient registries: a survey study	16
Differences between doctors of medicine and dental medicine in the perception of professionalism on social networking sites: the development of the e-professionalism assessment compatibility index (eP	16
When advance directives clash with family consent: designing an operational framework for end-of-life decision-making in China and Korea	15
Decision-making and institutional support for ECMO and ventilator allocation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide cross-sectional survey of designated physicians at Japan’s advanced critical car	15
The ethics of research involving biobanking specimens from Kenyan children and adolescents living with HIV: discrepancies between individual perceptions and policy considerations	15
The use of bioethical decision-making framework in the ICU of a public Brazilian hospital: a retrospective observational case series	15
Biases in bioethics: a narrative review	15
Ethical concerns when recruiting children with cancer for research: Swedish healthcare professionals’ perceptions and experiences	15
Age and grit in prioritising intensive care: - a mixed-methods approach of normative challenges	14
Understanding drug exceptional access programs (DEAPs) in Canada, and their associated social and political issues	14
High-reward, high-risk technologies? An ethical and legal account of AI development in healthcare	13
How prehospital emergency personnel manage ethical challenges: the importance of confidence, trust, and safety	13
Analysis of ethical considerations of COVID‑19 vaccination: lessons for future	13
Ethical considerations and concerns in the implementation of AI in pharmacy practice: a cross-sectional study	13
Cardiac organoids do not warrant additional moral scrutiny	13

Third-party refusal of medical treatment – a critical analysis of case report from Islamic ethical perspectives	12
Willingness toward post-mortem body donation to science at a Mexican university: an exploratory survey	12
‘Guidance should have been there 15 years ago’ research stakeholders’ perspectives on ancillary care in the global south: a case study of Malawi	12
Ethical challenges in aesthetic dentistry: a qualitative exploration	12
Exploring ethical dilemmas in the care of pregnant women in Ghana: a case of “maternal-foetal conflicts in a peri-urban hospital in Ghana”	12
Exploring health and disease concepts in healthcare practice: an empirical philosophy of medicine study	12
The readiness of knowledge, attitude and confidence and associated factors of implementing living wills among healthcare professionals in Shenzhen: a cross-sectional study	12
Correction: Ethics of HIV cure research: an unfinished agenda	12
Public attitudes towards genomic data sharing: results from a provincial online survey in Canada	11
The voice of the profession: how the ethical demand is professionally refracted in the work of general practitioners	11
Activities of national bioethics committees during the COVID-19 pandemic: publication trends and future challenges	11
Investigating impact of consulting midwives on maternal rights charter on perception of respectful maternity care and postpartum blues among postpartum women: a quasi-experimental study	11
Climate change and professional responsibility: a cross-sectional survey among German general practitioners	11
The effects of artificial intelligence ethics awareness, digital literacy, and metacognition on nursing students’ attitudes toward artificial intelligence	11
Performance of IRBs in China: a survey on IRB employees and researchers’ experiences and perceptions	11
Participant and researcher understandings of research responsibilities in malawi: a comparative analysis	11
Informed consent in genetic and genomic studies in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of bioethical issues	11
Surrogate decision-making for people with disorders of consciousness: considering the control-preferences of informal caregivers before implementing multimodal testing	10
Moral distress and positive experiences of ICU staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned	10
Exploring the foundations and influences of nurses’moral courage: a scoping review	10
Willingness to develop an advance directive: perspectives of older persons at a national referral hospital in Uganda	10
Planning ahead for research participation: survey of public and professional stakeholders’ views about the acceptability and feasibility of advance research planning	10
Structural characteristics of research ethics committees in Japan and their relevance to regulatory science: a nationwide descriptive study	10
Ethical competence: the cornerstone of care in the cardiac operating room, a phenomenological study	10
“She was finally mine”: the moral experience of families in the context of trisomy 13 and 18– a scoping review with thematic analysis	10
Advancing equity in healthcare systems: understanding implicit bias and infant mortality	10
Surgical consent, perception of the patients who underwent a surgical operation in the Kurdistan region, Iraq	10
Experience and perspectives of end-of-life care discussion and physician orders for life-sustaining treatment of Korea (POLST-K): a cross-sectional study	10
Ethical challenges in the algorithmic era: a systematic rapid review of risk insights and governance pathways for nursing predictive analytics and early warning systems	10
How does patient-centered hospital culture affect clinical physicians’ medical professional attitudes and behaviours in Chinese public hospitals: a cross-sectional study?	10
Cultural, religious, and demographic factors shaping Arab healthcare providers’ decisions on referring Arab patients to palliative care in Israel: a qualitative study	10
Questionable research practices of medical and dental faculty in Pakistan – a confession	10
Ethical dilemmas in prioritizing patients for scarce radiotherapy resources	9
Healthcare practitioners as accomplices: a qualitative study of gender affirmation in a context of ambiguous regulation in Indonesia	9
Exploring the operational challenges of navigating ethical oversight in the era of artificial intelligence: a qualitative study of health research ethics committees in Tanzania	9
How is physicians’ implicit prejudice against the obese and mentally ill moderated by specialty and experience?	9
A review of clinical ethics consultations in a regional healthcare system over a two-year timeframe	9
Ethics and regulatory guidance to address the challenges encountered in research on rare diseases in a multinational dimension: the experience of a European funded programme	9
Exploring barriers and ethical challenges to medical data sharing: perspectives from Chinese researchers	9
Developing a digital informed consent app: opportunities and challenges of a new format to inform and obtain consent in public health research	9
Risks and benefits of engaging youth living with HIV in research: perspectives from Kenyan Youth, caregivers, and subject matter experts	9
Ethical challenges in conducting research in low and middle income setting during public health emergencies: a qualitative evidence of a COVID-19 pandemic: the experience of Iran	9
Physicians’ moral distinctions between medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study	9
Emergency separation of conjoined twins in a tertiary hospital in Indonesia: three case reports	8
Ethical perspectives of obstetricians and gynecologists on induced abortion and conscientious objection in Türkiye: a phenomenological study	8
Encompassing trust in medical AI from the perspective of medical students: a quantitative comparative study	8
Public attitudes toward the research use and storage of residual dried blood spots from newborn screening in China	8
On the “tightrope” of retail: reflections on ethical dilemmas faced by the pharmaceutical professionals in community pharmacies	8
If it were me…. Austrian undergraduate medical students’ attitudes towards end-of-life decisions: a cross-sectional study	8
Medical assistance in dying for people living with mental disorders: a qualitative thematic review	8
Preferences for life-sustaining treatments in advance decisions: a cross-sectional survey of Taiwanese general public	8
Children’s voices on their values and moral dilemmas when being cared and treated for cancer– a qualitative interview study	8
Prevalence of defensive medicine behaviors, associated risk factors and its mitigation strategies among physicians in Gaza Strip, palestine: a mixed method study	8
Increasing efficiency and well-being? a systematic review of the empirical claims of the double-benefit argument in socially assistive devices	8
Strengthening research oversight in Ghana: a descriptive analysis of ethical and regulatory capacity gaps and opportunities	8
Between knowledge and hope—the relationship between the patient and the doctor	8
A comparative ethical analysis of the Egyptian clinical research law	8
Ethical challenges in reproductive donation tourism: a qualitative study of clinicians’ perspectives in Iran	8
Conscientious objection and barriers to abortion within a specific regional context - an expert interview study	8
Exploring defensive medicine: examples, underlying and contextual factors, and potential strategies - a qualitative study	8
Correction: Public trust of AI in healthcare in South Africa: results of a survey	8
To donate or not to donate? Future healthcare professionals’ opinions on biobanking of human biological material for research purposes	8
Japan should initiate the discussion on voluntary assisted dying legislation now	8
Exploring how biobanks communicate the possibility of commercial access and its associated benefits and risks in participant documents	7
Exploring the consent process among pregnant and breastfeeding women taking part in a maternal vaccine clinical trial in Kampala, Uganda: a qualitative study	7
A systematic review of educational interventions to enhance ethical sensitivity in nursing students in Asia and the Middle East	7
Would you consider donating your left-over embryos to treat Parkinson’s disease? Interviews with individuals that underwent IVF in Sweden	7
Sacrifice and solicitation: an empirical ethics study of egg provider blogs	7
Parent views on a two-step consent process used in emergency neonatal research in the delivery room in Eastern Uganda	7
Examining the experiences of donor relatives in the organ donation decision process: a qualitative study in Türkiye	7
When facts are not fixed: rethinking shared decision making at the margins of neonatal viability	7
A qualitative interview study to determine barriers and facilitators of implementing automated decision support tools for genomic data access	7
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and ethical design: public perceptions of trustworthiness of an AI-based decision-support tool in the context of intrapartum care	7
Adolescent and parental proxy online record access: analysis of the empirical evidence based on four bioethical principles	7
Public funding for mitochondrial donation: An Australian public deliberation	7
Consent in flux: when brain‑computer interface embodiment undermines informed consent	7
Ethical issues in unprofessional behavior of residents who dispute dismissal: ten year analysis of case law in hospital-based specialties	7
Should healthcare professionals include aspects of environmental sustainability in clinical decision-making? A systematic review of reasons	7
What do Tanzanian Research Ethics Committees prioritise? A quantitative analysis of reviewer comments using Emanuel’s framework	7
Disparity in attitudes regarding assisted dying among physicians and the general public in Japan	7

A literature review of non-financial conflicts of interest in healthcare research and publication	7
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	7
Exploration of clinical ethics consultation in Uganda: a case study of Uganda Cancer Institute	7
Oncologists’ perspective on advance directives, a French national prospective cross-sectional survey – the ADORE study	7
Physician-reported characteristics, representations, and ethical justifications of shared decision-making practices in the care of paediatric patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness	7
Moral conflicts from the justice and care perspectives of japanese nurses: a qualitative content analysis	7
Structural tensions between health policy and medical ethics: a qualitative study of physicians’ experiences under Türkiye’s health transformation programme	7
A bioethical perspective on the meanings behind a wish to hasten death: a meta-ethnographic review	7
Implementing broad consent for research with routinely collected clinical data and residual biosamples in a cancer hospital: using mixed methods approach to evaluate consent rates and patients’ perspe	7
Correction: 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 st	7
CARE-ATLANTIC: understanding cross cultural differences in goals of care; a transatlantic study in critical care medicine	7
The impact of moral injury on healthcare workers’ career calling: exploring authentic self-expression, ethical leadership, and self-compassion	7
Research, education, ethics consultation: evaluating a Bioethics Unit in an Oncological Research Hospital	6
Enhancing nursing ethics education: comparing the PAD model and traditional lecture-based learning	6
A randomized study of digital versus genetic counselor return of actionable genetic research results to biobank participants (RESPECT3 study)	6
Critical consideration towards broad consent by patient experts: results of a semi-structured interview study on the secondary use of medical data	6
Respect, equality, and recognition in practice: a qualitative analysis of nurses’ workplace dignity in China	6
Cyberspatial privacy in the digital age: a proxemics-based framework with a healthcare application	6
Informed consent practices among emergency staff for patients undergoing emergency surgery in the emergency surgical units of two tertiary teaching hospitals in Uganda: a qualitative study	6
It takes a pirate to know one: ethical hackers for healthcare cybersecurity	6
Ethical implications of AI-driven clinical decision support systems on healthcare resource allocation: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ perspectives	6
The ethical requirement of explainability for AI-DSS in healthcare: a systematic review of reasons	6
Patient priorities for fulfilling the principle of respect in research: findings from a modified Delphi study	6
Decision-making for ICU admission: is there a place for AI? Exploring and understanding meaning, experiences, and perspectives	6
Ethical complexities in rehabilitation research: an integrative review of challenges and principles	6
Knowledge and perception of end-of-life bioethics among medical students. A comparative study between the University of Verona (Italy) and the University of Halle (Germany)	6
Diversity in decentralized clinical trials: prioritizing inclusion of underrepresented groups	6
Between hope and future planning: the dementia journey for care partners through the lens of relational autonomy	6
Should Artificial Intelligence be used to support clinical ethical decision-making? A systematic review of reasons	6
Exploring bias risks in artificial intelligence and targeted medicines manufacturing	6
Ethical challenges in EEG neurofeedback: a systematic review of gaps, risks, and responsibilities	6
Psychometric properties of instruments measuring ethical climate among healthcare professionals in care settings pre-pandemic: a systematic review	6
Family satisfaction with the end-of-life discussions and resuscitation orders for patients with severe COVID-19: a multicenter study in Saudi Arabia	6
Design and psychometric properties of a tool to assess Adherence to the Code of Ethics in Midwifery	6
Evaluating trustworthiness in AI-Based diabetic retinopathy screening: addressing transparency, consent, and privacy challenges	6
Guardians and research staff experiences and views about the consent process in hospital-based paediatric research studies in urban Malawi: A qualitative study	6
Patients accept therapy using embryonic stem cells for Parkinson’s disease: a discrete choice experiment	6
Moral character development in nursing students: a qualitative content analysis in Iran	6
Moral disengagement in critical care nurses: a conventional content analysis	6
End-of-life care in Moroccan ICUs: ethical challenges, practices, and perspectives of intensivists	6
“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	6
Injection‑induced sciatic nerve injuries in Turkey: a public health and patient safety analysis of Supreme Court decisions	6
The role of trust and relationship building in the ethical recruitment of youth living with HIV in research: perspectives from Kenyan youth living with HIV, their caregivers and subject matter experts	6
Bioethics training needs assessment for HIV research in vulnerable populations: a survey of trainees at college of health sciences, Makerere university	6
Voices from the ICU: a qualitative study of healthcare providers’ decision-making experiences during the provision of life-sustaining treatment in intensive care units of public and private referral h	6
Situational vulnerability within mental healthcare – a qualitative analysis of ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Views and attitudes about the offer of NIPT: a qualitative study of UK healthcare professionals	6
“Age independent, but person dependent”: a Swiss interview-based study on the meaning of good parenthood at an advanced parental age	6
The research relationship: participant perspectives on consent in biobanking	6
Evaluating cognitive bias in clinical ethics supports: a scoping review	6
AI-driven decision support systems and epistemic reliance: a qualitative study on obstetricians’ and midwives’ perspectives on integrating AI-driven CTG into clinical decision making	6
Mapping ethical issues encompassing end-of-life care for persons experiencing severe and persistent mental illness: a qualitative study	6
Ethical considerations during Mpox Outbreak: a scoping review	6