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Ethics for Laboratory Medicine.
Gronowski, Ann M; Budelier, Melissa M; Campbell, Sheldon M.
Afiliação
  • Gronowski AM; Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; gronowski@wustl.edu.
  • Budelier MM; Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
  • Campbell SM; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Clin Chem ; 65(12): 1497-1507, 2019 12.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31434657
BACKGROUND: Laboratory medicine, like other areas of medicine, is obliged to adhere to high ethical standards. There are particular ethical issues that are unique to laboratory medicine and other areas in which ethical issues uniquely impact laboratory practice. Despite this, there is variability in ethics education within the profession. This review provides a foundation for the study of ethics within laboratory medicine. CONTENT: The Belmont Report identifies 3 core principles in biomedical ethics: respect for persons (including autonomy), beneficence (and its corollary nonmalfeasance), and justice. These core principles must be adhered to in laboratory medicine. Informed consent is vital to maintain patient autonomy. However, balancing patient autonomy with the desire for beneficence can sometimes be difficult when patients refuse testing or treatment. The use of leftover or banked samples is fundamental to the ability to do research, create reference intervals, and develop new tests, but it creates problems with consent. Advances in genetic testing have created unique ethical issues regarding privacy, incidental findings, and informed consent. As in other professions, the emergence of highly contagious and deadly infectious diseases poses a difficult ethical dilemma of helping patients while protecting healthcare workers. CONCLUSIONS: Although many clinical laboratorians do not see or treat patients, they must be held accountable to the highest ethical and professional behavior. Recognition and understanding of ethical issues are essential to ethical practice of laboratory medicine.
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Texto completo: 1 Eixos temáticos: Pesquisa_clinica Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Pesquisa Biomédica / Ética em Pesquisa / Ética Médica Tipo de estudo: Guideline / Prognostic_studies Limite: Humans Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2019 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Eixos temáticos: Pesquisa_clinica Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Pesquisa Biomédica / Ética em Pesquisa / Ética Médica Tipo de estudo: Guideline / Prognostic_studies Limite: Humans Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2019 Tipo de documento: Article