The prophylactic use of antibiotics has become a routine procedure in many areas of medicine. In neurosurgery, however, there is considerable debate over their use in the prevention of postoperative ...

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, UK; [email protected] If you wish to reuse any or all of ...

The world of disability theory is currently divided between those who insist it reflects a physical fact affecting life quality and those who believe disability is defined by social prejudice. Despite ...

1 National University of Singapore Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Singapore 2 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Semaglutide, ...

Annoni’s critique of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors (P4) highlights a fundamental flaw in their current design: they fail to meaningfully respect patient autonomy.1 His argument that P4 ...

Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK Correspondence to: Dr Angus Dawson Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, ...

Correspondence to Brian D Earp, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; brian.earp{at}gmail.com If there is a single thread running through this issue of the ...

1 Department of Medical Decision Making, of the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2 Department of Surgery of the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 ...

This pilot study explores the reasons patients have for refusing chemotherapy, and the ways oncologists respond to them. Our hypothesis, generated from interviews with patients and oncologists, is ...

Shared decision-making is widely accepted as the gold standard of clinical care. Numerous obstacles to achieving shared decision-making have been identified, including patient factors, physician ...