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Drug Therapy - Ethics
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Use of placebo interventions among Swiss primary care providers.
8 Aug 2009 
BACKGROUND: Placebo interventions can have meaningful effects for patients. However, little is known about the circumstances of their use in clinical practice. We aimed to investigate to what extent and in which way Swiss primary care providers use ... Read more...
Covert medication in older adults who lack decision-making capacity.
30 Jul 2009 Any mentally competent adult has the right to give or refuse consent to treatment or nursing intervention. The ethical principle underpinning this free choice is respect for autonomy, and the nurse's professional duty to respect the decision of the ... Read more...
Autonomy and authenticity of enhanced personality traits.
29 Jun 2009 There is concern that the use of neuroenhancements to alter character traits undermines consumer's authenticity. But the meaning, scope and value of authenticity remain vague. However, the majority of contemporary autonomy accounts ground individual ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Drug Therapy - Ethics'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Use of placebo interventions among Swiss primary care providers. 8 Aug 2009
- Covert medication in older adults who lack decision-making capacity. 30 Jul 2009
- Autonomy and authenticity of enhanced personality traits. 29 Jun 2009
- Nursing practice statement NP 13. Registered nurse's responsibility for implementation of prescribed therapies.
29 Jun 2009 - "Show me the medicines". 29 Jun 2009
- Behavior control: from the brain to the mind. 29 Apr 2009
- Constitutional law--substantive due process--Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that criminal defendant's best interests justify forcible medication.--Commonwealth v. Sam, 952 A.2d 565 (Pa. 2008). 29 Apr 2009
- Off-label prescribing: a call for heightened professional and government oversight. 30 Dec 2008
- Chirality and drugs in clinical practice and its ethical aspect. 30 Dec 2008
- [Medication: ethical and legal aspects for nursing]
30 Dec 2008 - Antibiotic therapy in elderly persons affected by severe dementia. 6 Dec 2008
- [Ethics and monetary values. Influence of economical aspects on decision-making in intensive care] 30 Oct 2008
- The antidepressant debate and the balanced placebo trial design: an ethical analysis. 24 Oct 2008
- The ethics of consent in delirium studies. 24 Jul 2008
- Nursing practice: delegation of medication administration. 29 Apr 2008
- How to manage conflicts of interest with industry? 30 Mar 2008
- Antibiotic therapy in the demented elderly population: redefining the ethical dilemma. 23 Feb 2008
- Ethics related to drug therapy in the elderly. 13 Feb 2008
- Imperialism, race, and therapeutics: the legacy of medicalizing the "colonial body". 30 Dec 2007
- Pain medications in the locker room: to dispense or not. 29 Nov 2007
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Technical information about 'Drug Therapy'
Descriptor UI: D004358
Alternative terms: Drug Therapy; Pharmacotherapy; Pharmacotherapies; Chemotherapy; Chemotherapies; Therapy, Drug; Drug Therapies; Therapies, Drug;
Related Mesh Headings: Medication Errors; Pharmacologic Actions;
Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;
Tree Number: E02.319;
Technical Notes: GEN only: prefer /drug ther with disease term: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.26; note X ref CHEMOTHERAPY: prefer specific chem or chem group, e.g., chemotherapy of lymphoma = LYMPHOMA /drug ther + ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS /ther use, not DRUG THERAPY; DF: DRUG THER