General Surgery - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Ethics of fetal surgery.

30 May 2009 This article provides a comprehensive approach to the ethics of clinical investigation of fetal surgery. Investigators should address the initiation and assessment of clinical trials to determine whether they establish a standard of care and use an ... Read more...

Surgical research in the UK.

30 Mar 2009 This review focuses on the history of, and recent developments in, the law and ethics of research with practical advice for surgeons conducting clinical research. Legal references apply to England and Wales or to Scotland, but the underlying ethical ... Read more...

An epidemiological cross-sectional study of the knowledge of the clinicians on surgical ethics of informed consent in emergency patients.

30 Dec 2008 This was an epidemiological cross-sectional study on the knowledge of the clinicians on the surgical ethics especially the informed consent among the surgically emergency patients in the various units of the General Surgery Department, Chittagong ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'General Surgery - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Unravelling ethical challenges in surgery. 24 Sep 2009
• Comment of the American Board of Surgery on the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine Report, "Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety". 30 Aug 2009
• A problem with informed consent. 30 Jul 2009
• Allocating resources during pandemic addressed in annual ethics lecture. 29 Jun 2009
• Surgical infomercials: the ethical price of stardom. 29 Jun 2009
• Ethics of fetal surgery. 30 May 2009
• Dilemmas in surgery: medical ethics education in surgery rotation. 30 May 2009
• The development of consent from Bolam to Chester: what you need to know and what your patients are entitled to know. 9 May 2009
• Surgeons and ethics: you bet! 22 Apr 2009
• Ethics of surgical complications. 30 Mar 2009
• Complications, errors, and surgical ethics. 30 Mar 2009
• Surgical research in the UK. 30 Mar 2009
• [György Bérci--88 years of age] 30 Mar 2009
• ACS-developed curriculum is becoming a centerpiece of training in ethics. 27 Feb 2009
• Informed consent and the surgeon. 19 Jan 2009
• An epidemiological cross-sectional study of the knowledge of the clinicians on surgical ethics of informed consent in emergency patients. 30 Dec 2008
• Gentleman surgeon. 30 Dec 2008
• [How to avoid research misconduct - recommendations for surgeons] 30 Oct 2008
• Professionalism and ethics in the current resident training paradigm. 29 Sep 2008
• Surgical education: Eschewing the doing. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'General Surgery'

Definition: A specialty in which manual or operative procedures are used in the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.

Descriptor UI: D013502

Alternative terms: General Surgery; Surgery, General; Surgery;

Related Mesh Headings: Surgical Procedures, Operative; Barber Surgeons;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.403.810.300;

History Note: 2009 (1974)

Technical Notes: SPEC only: prefer /surg with organs & dis: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.70; the surgeon & specialty go here: the surgical patient = SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE: Manual 26.15+; /instrum = SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS or SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; military surgery = MILITARY MEDICINE (IM) + GENERAL SURGERY (IM) if the specialty; DF: SURG