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ArticleHEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues2020

When International Humanitarian or Medical Missions Go Wrong: An Ethical Analysis.

David Zientek, Ric Bonnell

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Article in HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Healthcare in Extreme and Austere Environments: Responding to the Ethical Challenges.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

David ZientekSeton Heart Institute, and University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, 1301 W. 38th Street, Suite 405, Austin, TX, 78705, USA. dzientek@ascension.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5531-5550
Ric BonnellTCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine, 3430 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX, 76107, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent decades have seen a significant increase in physicians participating in international short-term missions to regions with limited or no access to health care by virtue of natural disaster or lack of resources. Recent publications in the ethics literature have explored the potential of these missions for unintentional harm to the intended beneficiaries. Less has been discussed about how to respond when harm actually occurs. The authors review the ethical issues raised by short-term medical and humanitarian missions and the literature on responding to unintended error to provide guidelines for avoiding harm to the intended beneficiaries of missions and an appropriate response when harm occurs. Two cases demonstrating an analysis and response to unintended harm are presented.

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Ethics, MedicalAltruismDisastersEthical AnalysisHumansMedical MissionsRelief WorkEthics of short-term medical missionsHumanitarian missionsShort-term medical missionsUnintended harm from medical missions

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PMID31832895

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