BMC Medical Ethics

Article	Citations
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study	107
Understanding clinical ethics situations: a co-created repertoire of practices	67
Return of health research findings in Nigeria-perspective of potential research participants	65
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV	62
Increasing physician participation as subjects in scientific and quality improvement research	53
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension	51
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study	49
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia	46
Community engagement conduct for genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders in Uganda	45
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?	45
Incognito standardized patients for studying healthcare stigma: partial deception and other ethical challenges	44
The ethics of simplification: balancing patient autonomy, comprehension, and accuracy in AI-generated radiology reports	44
A scoping review of human genetic resources management policies and databases in high- and middle-low-income countries	44
The face of the other in the clinic: reframing patient impoliteness through phenomenological ethics in provider-patient communication	42
Management discussion of laws and regulations on human genetic resources in China: a scoping review	42
Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees	38
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review	34
“Everything has been tried and his heart can’t recover…”: A Descriptive Review of “Do Everything!” in the Archive of Ontario Consent and Capacity Board	33
A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives on the ethics of medically-delivered safer injection education for people who inject drugs	32
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	32
Opportunities for a national genomic data governance framework in Australia: a systematic review	31
The last human touch: why AI doesn’t belong in life’s defining moments	31
From chaos to symbiosis: exploring adaptive co-evolution strategies for generative AI and research integrity systems	30
Readability of health research informed consent forms: case of the National Health Research Ethics Committee in Tanzania	28
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	28

Correction to: Mapping trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model	28
Promoting trans patient autonomy in surgical preparation for phalloplasty and metoidioplasty: results from a community-based cross-sectional survey and implications for preoperative assessments	28
Awareness, attitudes, and educational needs regarding the life-sustaining treatment decision-making act in Korea among healthcare providers and medical students: a comparative analysis	28
Ethical use of artificial intelligence to prevent sudden cardiac death: an interview study of patient perspectives	27
Behind the scenes of research ethics committee oversight: a qualitative research study with committee chairs in the Middle East and North Africa region	25
Putting patients first: when home-based care staff prioritise loyalty to patients above the system and themselves. An ethnographic study	25
Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement	25
Legal and ethical conflicts in hospital settings: thematic synthesis of qualitative studies focused on nursing practice	24
Uncertain futures and unsolicited findings in pediatric genomic sequencing: guidelines for return of results in cases of developmental delay	24
The dual role dilemma of liver transplantation health care professionals	23
A qualitative focus group study on legal experts’ views regarding euthanasia requests based on an advance euthanasia directive	22
The search for the principle of justice for infertile couples: characterization of the brazilian population and bioethical discussion	22
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	22
The challenges of keeping clinicians unaware of their participation in a national, cluster-randomised, implementation trial	22
Ethics rounds in the ambulance service: a qualitative evaluation	21
Descriptions of risks and benefits of HIV vaccine trials in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs): an integrative review	21
Physicians’ legal knowledge of informed consent and confidentiality. A cross-sectional study	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	18
Exploring knowledge and attitudes toward electronic informed consent among clinical trial participants in China: a cross-sectional study	18
Ethical analysis of the European normative framework on fertility preservation	18
Professional and academic profile of the Brazilian research ethics committees	18
Measuring moral distress in health professionals using the MMD-HP-SPA scale	18
The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions	17
Ethical perspectives of Brazilian community pharmacists: a pilot study	17
Clinical ethics consultations: a scoping review of reported outcomes	17
Should AI allocate livers for transplant? Public attitudes and ethical considerations	17
Family roles in informed consent from the perspective of young Chinese doctors: a questionnaire study	16
Moral approval of xenotransplantation in Egypt: associations with religion, attitudes towards animals and demographic factors	16
Ownership of individual-level health data, data sharing, and data governance	16
The genetic technologies questionnaire: lay judgments about genetic technologies align with ethical theory, are coherent, and predict behaviour	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	15
Ethical concerns when recruiting children with cancer for research: Swedish healthcare professionals’ perceptions and experiences	15
Patient-centered empirical research on ethically relevant psychosocial and cultural aspects of cochlear, glaucoma and cardiovascular implants – a scoping review	15
Age and grit in prioritising intensive care: - a mixed-methods approach of normative challenges	14
When advance directives clash with family consent: designing an operational framework for end-of-life decision-making in China and Korea	14
Patient autonomy in inpatient medical rehabilitation in Germany—study protocol of a multicenter cross-sectional study	14
Understanding drug exceptional access programs (DEAPs) in Canada, and their associated social and political issues	14
How prehospital emergency personnel manage ethical challenges: the importance of confidence, trust, and safety	14
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	13
High-reward, high-risk technologies? An ethical and legal account of AI development in healthcare	13
Analysis of ethical considerations of COVID‑19 vaccination: lessons for future	13
Biases in bioethics: a narrative review	13
Cardiac organoids do not warrant additional moral scrutiny	13
The ethics of research involving biobanking specimens from Kenyan children and adolescents living with HIV: discrepancies between individual perceptions and policy considerations	13
The use of bioethical decision-making framework in the ICU of a public Brazilian hospital: a retrospective observational case series	13
Ethical considerations and concerns in the implementation of AI in pharmacy practice: a cross-sectional study	13
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
Correction: Ethics of HIV cure research: an unfinished agenda	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	11
Informed consent in genetic and genomic studies in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of bioethical issues	11
Participant and researcher understandings of research responsibilities in malawi: a comparative analysis	11
The effects of artificial intelligence ethics awareness, digital literacy, and metacognition on nursing students’ attitudes toward artificial intelligence	11
Ethical challenges in the algorithmic era: a systematic rapid review of risk insights and governance pathways for nursing predictive analytics and early warning systems	11
The voice of the profession: how the ethical demand is professionally refracted in the work of general practitioners	11
The readiness of knowledge, attitude and confidence and associated factors of implementing living wills among healthcare professionals in Shenzhen: a cross-sectional study	11
Performance of IRBs in China: a survey on IRB employees and researchers’ experiences and perceptions	11
Exploring the foundations and influences of nurses’moral courage: a scoping review	11
Third-party refusal of medical treatment – a critical analysis of case report from Islamic ethical perspectives	10
Public attitudes towards genomic data sharing: results from a provincial online survey in Canada	10
Surgical consent, perception of the patients who underwent a surgical operation in the Kurdistan region, Iraq	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
Managing community engagement in research in Uganda: insights from practices in HIV/AIDS research	10
Exploring health and disease concepts in healthcare practice: an empirical philosophy of medicine study	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
Risks and benefits of engaging youth living with HIV in research: perspectives from Kenyan Youth, caregivers, and subject matter experts	10
How does patient-centered hospital culture affect clinical physicians’ medical professional attitudes and behaviours in Chinese public hospitals: a cross-sectional study?	10
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	10
Moral distress and positive experiences of ICU staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned	10
Surrogate decision-making for people with disorders of consciousness: considering the control-preferences of informal caregivers before implementing multimodal testing	10
Emergency separation of conjoined twins in a tertiary hospital in Indonesia: three case reports	10
Ethical dilemmas in prioritizing patients for scarce radiotherapy resources	9
Physicians’ moral distinctions between medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study	9
Cultural, religious, and demographic factors shaping Arab healthcare providers’ decisions on referring Arab patients to palliative care in Israel: a qualitative study	9
A review of clinical ethics consultations in a regional healthcare system over a two-year timeframe	9
Encompassing trust in medical AI from the perspective of medical students: a quantitative comparative study	9
Willingness to develop an advance directive: perspectives of older persons at a national referral hospital in Uganda	9
Prevalence of defensive medicine behaviors, associated risk factors and its mitigation strategies among physicians in Gaza Strip, palestine: a mixed method study	9
Planning ahead for research participation: survey of public and professional stakeholders’ views about the acceptability and feasibility of advance research planning	9
Developing a digital informed consent app: opportunities and challenges of a new format to inform and obtain consent in public health research	9
Questionable research practices of medical and dental faculty in Pakistan – a confession	9
Children’s voices on their values and moral dilemmas when being cared and treated for cancer– a qualitative interview study	9
Exploring defensive medicine: examples, underlying and contextual factors, and potential strategies - a qualitative study	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
How is physicians’ implicit prejudice against the obese and mentally ill moderated by specialty and experience?	9
Healthcare practitioners as accomplices: a qualitative study of gender affirmation in a context of ambiguous regulation in Indonesia	9
Increasing efficiency and well-being? a systematic review of the empirical claims of the double-benefit argument in socially assistive devices	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
Conscientious objection and barriers to abortion within a specific regional context - an expert interview study	8
Preferences for life-sustaining treatments in advance decisions: a cross-sectional survey of Taiwanese general public	8
A bioethical perspective on the meanings behind a wish to hasten death: a meta-ethnographic review	8
Should healthcare professionals include aspects of environmental sustainability in clinical decision-making? A systematic review of reasons	8
Disparity in attitudes regarding assisted dying among physicians and the general public in Japan	8
On the “tightrope” of retail: reflections on ethical dilemmas faced by the pharmaceutical professionals in community pharmacies	8
Correction: Public trust of AI in healthcare in South Africa: results of a survey	8
Exploring barriers and ethical challenges to medical data sharing: perspectives from Chinese researchers	8
Public attitudes toward the research use and storage of residual dried blood spots from newborn screening in China	8
Medical assistance in dying for people living with mental disorders: a qualitative thematic review	8
Sacrifice and solicitation: an empirical ethics study of egg provider blogs	8
Between knowledge and hope—the relationship between the patient and the doctor	8
Ethical perspectives of obstetricians and gynecologists on induced abortion and conscientious objection in Türkiye: a phenomenological study	8
Advancing equity in healthcare systems: understanding implicit bias and infant mortality	8
A comparative ethical analysis of the Egyptian clinical research law	8
Strengthening research oversight in Ghana: a descriptive analysis of ethical and regulatory capacity gaps and opportunities	8
To donate or not to donate? Future healthcare professionals’ opinions on biobanking of human biological material for research purposes	8
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	8
A qualitative interview study to determine barriers and facilitators of implementing automated decision support tools for genomic data access	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
When facts are not fixed: rethinking shared decision making at the margins of neonatal viability	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
The impact of moral injury on healthcare workers’ career calling: exploring authentic self-expression, ethical leadership, and self-compassion	7
Oncologists’ perspective on advance directives, a French national prospective cross-sectional survey – the ADORE study	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
Evaluating trustworthiness in AI-Based diabetic retinopathy screening: addressing transparency, consent, and privacy challenges	7
Would you consider donating your left-over embryos to treat Parkinson’s disease? Interviews with individuals that underwent IVF in Sweden	7
If it were me…. Austrian undergraduate medical students’ attitudes towards end-of-life decisions: a cross-sectional study	7
Ethical issues in unprofessional behavior of residents who dispute dismissal: ten year analysis of case law in hospital-based specialties	7
A systematic review of educational interventions to enhance ethical sensitivity in nursing students in Asia and the Middle East	7
A literature review of non-financial conflicts of interest in healthcare research and publication	7
Ethical implications of AI-driven clinical decision support systems on healthcare resource allocation: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ perspectives	7
Where the public health principles meet the individual: a framework for the ethics of compulsory outpatient treatment in psychiatry	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
Examining the experiences of donor relatives in the organ donation decision process: a qualitative study in Türkiye	7
Japan should initiate the discussion on voluntary assisted dying legislation now	7
Exploring how biobanks communicate the possibility of commercial access and its associated benefits and risks in participant documents	7
Moral conflicts from the justice and care perspectives of japanese nurses: a qualitative content analysis	7
Exploration of clinical ethics consultation in Uganda: a case study of Uganda Cancer Institute	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
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
Ethical considerations during Mpox Outbreak: a scoping review	6
Critical consideration towards broad consent by patient experts: results of a semi-structured interview study on the secondary use of medical data	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
It takes a pirate to know one: ethical hackers for healthcare cybersecurity	6
The ethical requirement of explainability for AI-DSS in healthcare: a systematic review of reasons	6
Ethical complexities in rehabilitation research: an integrative review of challenges and principles	6
Between hope and future planning: the dementia journey for care partners through the lens of relational autonomy	6
Moral disengagement in critical care nurses: a conventional content analysis	6
Situational vulnerability within mental healthcare – a qualitative analysis of ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
A randomized study of digital versus genetic counselor return of actionable genetic research results to biobank participants (RESPECT3 study)	6
Design and psychometric properties of a tool to assess Adherence to the Code of Ethics in Midwifery	6
Patients accept therapy using embryonic stem cells for Parkinson’s disease: a discrete choice experiment	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
“Age independent, but person dependent”: a Swiss interview-based study on the meaning of good parenthood at an advanced parental age	6
End-of-life care in Moroccan ICUs: ethical challenges, practices, and perspectives of intensivists	6
Diversity in decentralized clinical trials: prioritizing inclusion of underrepresented groups	6
Junior medical doctors’ decision making when using advance care directives to guide treatment for people with dementia: a cross-sectional vignette study	6
Moral character development in nursing students: a qualitative content analysis in Iran	6
Psychometric properties of instruments measuring ethical climate among healthcare professionals in care settings pre-pandemic: a systematic review	6
Evaluating cognitive bias in clinical ethics supports: a scoping review	6
Research, education, ethics consultation: evaluating a Bioethics Unit in an Oncological Research Hospital	6
Decision-making for ICU admission: is there a place for AI? Exploring and understanding meaning, experiences, and perspectives	6
Enhancing nursing ethics education: comparing the PAD model and traditional lecture-based learning	6
Views and attitudes about the offer of NIPT: a qualitative study of UK healthcare professionals	6
Injection‑induced sciatic nerve injuries in Turkey: a public health and patient safety analysis of Supreme Court decisions	6
The research relationship: participant perspectives on consent in biobanking	6
Mapping ethical issues encompassing end-of-life care for persons experiencing severe and persistent mental illness: a qualitative study	6
Cyberspatial privacy in the digital age: a proxemics-based framework with a healthcare application	6
Respect, equality, and recognition in practice: a qualitative analysis of nurses’ workplace dignity in China	6
Exploring bias risks in artificial intelligence and targeted medicines manufacturing	6