To analyze the ethical challenges dealing with clinical research, we carried out a systematic review of the literature and qualitative research, determining facilitators, barriers, and ethical paradigms perceived by Chilean ...

Background: Clinical ethics consultation services and their methods vary and they are seldom evaluated. Only one formal system of individual clinical ethics consultation has been reported in Chile, with a ten-year registry. ...

In the last decades, medical care has been increasingly permeated by the concept of evidence-based-medicine, in which clinical research plays a crucial role in establishing diagnostic and treatment. Following the improvements ...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and its main strategy, randomized clinical trials, have had less impact on medical practice than might be expected. Of the various reasons that make practitioners wary of applying research ...

The aim of this investigation is to identify the main topics of the discussion about medical ethics in clinical practice in Chile. 143 articles in Chilean medical and bioethics journals were identified. They were put under ...

Advances in medicine cause every time with more frequency cases in which it is difficult to identify what is "the best or more accepted" from an ethical point of view. In order to solve these dilemmas, case analysis models ...

The purpose of this study is to determine empirically the state of the art of the medical care, when healthcare personal is confrinted with ethical dilemmas related with the care they give to the geriatric population.

Scientific development that has been achieved through decades finds in clinical research a great possibility of translating findings to human health application. Evidence given by clinical trials allows everyone to have ...

Scientific development that has been achieved through decades finds in clinical research a great possibility of translating findings to human health application. Evidence given by clinical trials allows everyone to have ...