Bioethics
Uncoupling vaccination from politics: a call to action.
21 Sep, 2021 | 09:56h | UTCUncoupling vaccination from politics: a call to action – The Lancet
Effectiveness and Ethics of Incentives for Research Participation: 2 Randomized Clinical Trials.
21 Sep, 2021 | 08:57h | UTCEffectiveness and Ethics of Incentives for Research Participation: 2 Randomized Clinical Trials – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Evidence for the Ethics of Incentivizing Clinical Trial Enrollment? – JAMA Internal Medicine
Commentary on Twitter
In this study, financial incentives increased trial enrollment in one of two trials, and did not produce undue or unjust inducement or other unintended consequences in either trial https://t.co/SaCk1XinuO
— JAMA Internal Medicine (@JAMAInternalMed) September 20, 2021
Editorial: Authorship and Publication Matters: Credit and Credibility.
21 Sep, 2021 | 08:54h | UTCAuthorship and Publication Matters: Credit and Credibility – Anesthesiology
Related: When is ‘self-plagiarism’ OK? New guidelines offer researchers rules for recycling text – Science
Commentary on Twitter
Anesthesiology editors focus on authorship and publication matters in a recent editorial examining journal policies on appropriate recognition for authors and collaborators. https://t.co/2NCpTEkpQW#PeerReviewWeek21 pic.twitter.com/lYtXtZD0l9
— Anesthesiology (@_Anesthesiology) September 20, 2021
Podcast: Advance Your Care Planning.
21 Sep, 2021 | 08:51h | UTC#295 Advance Your Care Planning with Dr. Rebecca Sudore – The Curbsiders
Opinion | Vaccinate the World before Starting COVID Booster Shots – “Fewer than 0.5 percent of vaccine doses have been distributed to people living in low-income countries”.
19 Sep, 2021 | 23:41h | UTCVaccinate the World before Starting COVID Booster Shots – Scientific American
Vaccine passports are coming. But are they ethical?
17 Sep, 2021 | 10:10h | UTCVaccine passports are coming. But are they ethical? – The Conversation
Related:
Infographic: Vaccine passports around the world.
WHO panel comes out against requiring vaccination proof for travel
Opinion | How to lose friends and alienate people? On the problems of vaccine passports (several texts on the subject)
AAN Position Statement: Ethical Considerations in Dementia Diagnosis and Care.
17 Sep, 2021 | 10:04h | UTCEthical Considerations in Dementia Diagnosis and Care: AAN Position Statement – Neurology
Editorial: Striving for diversity in research studies.
16 Sep, 2021 | 10:02h | UTCStriving for Diversity in Research Studies – New England Journal of Medicine
Opinion | Don’t make early career researchers ‘ghost authors.’ Give us the credit we deserve.
14 Sep, 2021 | 08:50h | UTCDon’t make early career researchers ‘ghost authors.’ Give us the credit we deserve – Science
Financial profit in medicine: a position paper from the American College of Physicians.
10 Sep, 2021 | 05:21h | UTCNews release: ACP Says Profit Motive in Medicine May Contribute to a Broken Health Care System – American College of Physicians
AstraZeneca bosses warn against rush for boosters – “giving the most vulnerable, who may not have built up a full immune response from the first two, a third, top-up dose is “sensible”. But any decision to give a third, booster jab “to large swathes of the population”, to extend their protection from the first two, must be based on clinical data”.
9 Sep, 2021 | 09:59h | UTCAstraZeneca bosses warn against rush for boosters – BBC
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
"Moving too quickly to boost across the entire adult population will deprive us of these insights, leaving this important decision to rest on limited data," Mr Soriot and Sir Mene write.https://t.co/xTAk7yyu5G
— The Sharing Scientist (@ScienceShared) September 8, 2021
WHO appeals for countries to postpone COVID-19 vaccine boosters until 2022 to prioritize vaccinating the most at-risk people around the world who are yet to receive their first dose.
9 Sep, 2021 | 10:00h | UTCSee also:
WHO chief urges halt to booster shots for rest of the year – Associated Press
WHO extends moratorium on booster COVID vaccine doses – CIDRAP
Balancing incentives and disincentives for vaccination in a pandemic.
9 Sep, 2021 | 09:52h | UTCBalancing incentives and disincentives for vaccination in a pandemic – Nature Medicine
Perspective | Rethinking medication adherence.
9 Sep, 2021 | 08:55h | UTCRethinking Medication Adherence – Therapeutics Initiative
Medical, ethical, and legal aspects of end-of-life dilemmas in the intensive care unit.
7 Sep, 2021 | 10:37h | UTC
Tube feeding for people with severe dementia: making decisions.
7 Sep, 2021 | 10:39h | UTCTube feeding for people with severe dementia: making decisions – Evidently Cochrane
Infographic: Vaccine passports around the world.
3 Sep, 2021 | 10:27h | UTCVaccine passports around the world – The BMJ
Opinion | “The downsides of masking young students are real”.
3 Sep, 2021 | 10:24h | UTCThe Downsides of Masking Young Students Are Real – The Atlantic
Commentary with a rebuttal on Twitter (thread – click for more)
I'm not greatly interested in the school/mask debate, but I must say this is pretty wild – the article leads with this statement and then proceeds to offer no evidence whatsoever of any harms except "subjective [sic] shortness of breath" https://t.co/JL1Iadt8fy pic.twitter.com/5bZmvOhWo7
— Health Nerd (@GidMK) September 2, 2021
Expired cardiac devices may do global good, but safety unknown – A discussion of the ethics of using expired technology in parts of the world with no other options is long past due, some say.
2 Sep, 2021 | 08:16h | UTCExpired Cardiac Devices May Do Global Good, but Safety Unknown – TCTMD
Perspective | COVID-19 boosters in rich nations will delay vaccines for all.
1 Sep, 2021 | 09:56h | UTCCOVID-19 boosters in rich nations will delay vaccines for all – Nature
Commentaries on Twitter
In @NatureMedicine, @zchagla & I ask:
Are we as a species willing to protect all humankind, or do we mostly care about optimizing protection for people in wealthy nations?https://t.co/LCS5Dxf1II pic.twitter.com/vdn4oRiYyz
— Madhu Pai, MD, PhD (@paimadhu) August 31, 2021
"There remain 3.5 billion people on this earth, nearly half of the world’s population, who have not received even a first dose of vaccine. Only 2% of the African population has received even a single dose." #Equity #COVID19 Via @NatureMedicine https://t.co/k6cG6vyQ5d pic.twitter.com/DsbWVvQ9R7
— Muin J. Khoury (@MuinJKhoury) August 31, 2021
Prioritising COVID booster shots in high income countries is unethical – until health care workers and those at high risk in low and middle income countries have been vaccinated. @paimadhu and @zchagla wrote this much better than I could – thank you! https://t.co/F89o8y9V8P
— Ben Johnson 🦠📝 (@drbenjohnson) August 31, 2021
WHO Issues COVID-19 Digital ‘Vaccine Pass’ Guidelines – But Stresses These Should Not be Requirements for Travel.
31 Aug, 2021 | 09:02h | UTC
Opinion | COVID vaccines: we need to find out which incentives actually work – the author argues that policies to promote vaccine uptake should be tested in randomized clinical trials.
31 Aug, 2021 | 08:56h | UTCCOVID vaccines: we need to find out which incentives actually work – The Conversation
Editorial: The Guardian view on global vaccine inequality: unwise as well as unethical.
27 Aug, 2021 | 10:09h | UTCThe Guardian view on global vaccine inequality: unwise as well as unethical
Perspective | That ‘damn machine’: the dark side of mechanical ventilators in the ICU.
25 Aug, 2021 | 09:04h | UTCThat ‘damn machine’: the dark side of mechanical ventilators in the ICU – STAT
Point-counterpoint: Are routine daily physical exams in hospitalized patients a waste of time?
25 Aug, 2021 | 08:45h | UTCCounterpoint: Routine Daily Physical Exams Add Value for the Hospitalist and Patient – Journal of Hospital Medicine
Rebuttal: Routine Daily Physical Exam – Journal of Hospital Medicine
Commentary on Twitter
Almost exactly a year ago, I had a modestly controversial tweet about routine daily physical exams — and about how we should probably spend more time actually talking to our patients daily rather than pretending to examine then.https://t.co/jtziAizIwL
— Adam Rodman (@AdamRodmanMD) August 24, 2021