Ethical considerations in end-of-life care and research
Humans; Mental Competency; Reproducibility of Results; Research; Ethics; quality of life; Palliative Care/ethics; Psychological; Stress; Multi-site Ethics; Decision Making/ethics; Empirical Research; Human Experimentation/ethics; Research Subjects; Terminal Care/ethics; Beneficence
The goal of good palliative care is to relieve suffering and to improve quality of life. However, it is clear that access to palliative care is inconsistent. At least in part, these deficiencies exist because of a lack of solid evidence on which to base clinical decisions. Therefore, there is an urgent need for research that can define the standard of care and can increase access to quality care. This paper discusses six ethical aspects of end-of-life research that investigators and clinicians should consider in designing and conducting palliative care research. These include: (1) whether a study is research or quality improvement; (2) the study's potential benefits to future patients; (3) the study's potential benefits to subjects; (4) the study's risks to subjects; (5) subjects' decision-making capacity; and (6) the voluntariness of subjects' choices to participate in research.
2005
Casarett D
Journal Of Palliative Medicine
2005
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Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2005.8.s-148" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1089/jpm.2005.8.s-148</a>
Why Palliative Care For Children Is Preferable To Euthanasia
End Of Life; Ethics; Euthanasia; Palliative Care; Pediatrics
Beneficence; Child; Child Welfare/ethnology; Europe; Euthanasia/ethics; Humans; Palliative Care/ethics; Pediatrics/standards; Terminal Care/ethics
Recent laws in Europe now allow for pediatric euthanasia. The author reviews some rationale for caution, and addresses why ensuring the availability of pediatric palliative care is an important step before allowing pediatric euthanasia.
Carter Brian S
The American Journal Of Hospice & Palliative Care
2016
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10.1177/1049909114542648