Background: Research into adverse events (AEs) has highlighted the need to improve
patient safety. AEs are unintended injuries or complications resulting in death, disability or …

ADVERSE EVENTS AND MEDICAL ERRORS ARE NOT UNCOMMON. In this article we
review the literature on such events and discuss the ethical, legal and practical aspects of …

Background Patient autonomy is a fundamental, yet challenging, principle of professional
medical ethics. The idea that individual patients should have the freedom to make choices …

Virtual reality (VR) integrates real‐time computer graphics, body tracking devices, visual
displays, and other sensory input devices to immerse a participant in a computer‐generated …

The standard of professional candour with patients has undergone a significant change
over the past 30 years. Independent of their obligation to disclose information necessary for …

An instrument to assess 'ethical sensitivity' has been developed. The instrument presents
four clinical vignettes and the respondent is asked to list the ethical issues related to each …

As a preliminary step to beginning to assess the usefulness of clinical vignettes to measure
ethical sensitivity in undergraduate medical students, five clinical vignettes with seven to nine …

The third edition of Doing Right: A Practical Guide to Ethics for Medical Trainees and
Physicians is a practical guide to analyzing and resolving the ethical dilemmas medical …

The Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) is a key payload element of the
METOP series of European meteorological polar-orbit satellites. IASI will provide very accurate …

A dense amorphous form of silica was prepared at high pressure from the highly compressible,
siliceous zeolite, silicalite-1-F. Reverse Monte Carlo modeling of total X-ray scattering …