ArticleJournal of medical ethics2002
Palliative care research: trading ethics for an evidence base.
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Spiritual Care for Cancer Patients at the End-of-Life.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- What do young doctors know of palliative care; how do they expect the concept to work? : A 'palliative care' knowledge and opinion survey among young doctors.BMC research notes · 2019Article
- Ethics of cancer care: beyond biology and medicine.Ecancermedicalscience · 2019Review
- End-of-life care: Indian perspective.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2013Article
- Recruiting terminally ill patients into non-therapeutic oncology studies: views of health professionals.BMC medical ethics · 2012Article
- Patient, caregiver, health professional and researcher views and experiences of participating in research at the end of life: a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature.BMC medical research methodology · 2012Article
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- Poor Accrual in Palliative Research Studies: An Update From the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program.World journal of oncology · 2011Article
- End of life care in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the qualitative literature.BMC palliative care · 2011Article
- Research focus in palliative care.Indian journal of palliative care · 2011Article
- Ethics in palliative care.Indian journal of palliative care · 2009Article
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Abstract
Good medical practice requires evidence of effectiveness to address deficits in care, strive for further improvements, and justly apportion finite resources. Nevertheless, the potential of palliative care is still held back by a paucity of good evidence. These circumstances are largely attributable to perceived ethical challenges that allegedly distinguish dying patients as a special client class. In addition, practical limitations compromise the quality of evidence that can be obtained from empirical research on terminally ill subjects. This critique aims to appraise the need for focused research, in order to develop clinical and policy decisions that will guide health care professionals in their care of dying patients. Weighted against this need are tenets that value the practical and ethical challenges of palliative care research as unique and insurmountable. The review concludes that, provided investigators compassionately apply ethical principles to their work, there is no justification for not endeavouring to improve the quality of palliative care through research.
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