Ethical research in delirium: Arguments for including decisionally incapacitated subjects

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 169-174

  Adamis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Treloar, Adrian ^c   Martin, Finbarr C ^b   Macdonald, Alastair J D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c OXLEAS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias; Capacity; Consent; Delirium; Ethics

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DELIRIUM; ETHICS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL HEALTH; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT RIGHT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESEARCH SUBJECT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CODES OF ETHICS; DECISION MAKING; DELIRIUM; DOUBLE EFFECT PRINCIPLE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; PATIENT RIGHTS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRINCIPLE-BASED ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77949277642     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 16605454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9120-y     Document Type: Article

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