Disease relevance of Ethics, Institutional

• Withdrawal of DDAVP in the persistent vegetative state: a hospital ethics committee case study [1].

High impact information on Ethics, Institutional

• With parental consent and Hospital Ethics Committee approval, healthy children aged 2-14 yr who were undergoing elective strabismus surgery were studied [2].
• The study was conducted in 12 healthy volunteers by administering a 150 mg single oral dose of diethylcarbamazine citrate at 0600 or 1800 h in a balanced crossover design with the approval of an institutional ethics committee [3].
• A protocolfor the use of diazepam has been developed and is now also approved by our institutional ethics committee for use in research patients [4].
• METHODS: Following Institutional Ethics Board approval and patient consent, 160 female out- patients scheduled for laparoscopy were randomly allotted in a double-blind fashion to receive: i) saline (placebo), ii) 4 mg ondansetron, iii) 1.25 mg droperidol, or iv) 4 mg ondansetron and 1.25 mg droperidol combination intravenously on induction [5].
• METHODS: With institutional ethics approval, 57 consenting adults undergoing elective aortocoronary bypass surgery were randomly assigned preoperatively in a double-blind fashion to receive either placebo (n = 26) or indomethacin 100 mg suppositories (n = 31), 2-3 hr postoperatively, and 12 hr later [6].

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• SETTING: Educational workshop for members of hospital ethics committees, Zagreb, 2003 [7].
• Ethics and human values committee survey: (AMI Denver Hospitals: Saint Luke's, Presbyterian Denver, Presbyterian Aurora: Summer 1989). A study of physician attitudes and perceptions of a hospital ethics committee [8].
• A hospital ethics committee at war: the hospital ship Mercy experience during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm [9].

Gene context of Ethics, Institutional

• Hospital ethics committees in Paris [10].

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