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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
D'Oh! An Analysis Of The Medical Care Provided To The Family Of Homer J. Simpson, Robert Patterson, Charles Weijer
D'Oh! An Analysis Of The Medical Care Provided To The Family Of Homer J. Simpson, Robert Patterson, Charles Weijer
Charles Weijer
No abstract provided.
Monitoring Informed Consent In An Oncology Study Posing Serious Risk To Subjects, Myrian Skrutkowski, Charles Weijer, Stan Shapiro, Abraham Fuks, Adrian Langleben, Benjamin Freedman
Monitoring Informed Consent In An Oncology Study Posing Serious Risk To Subjects, Myrian Skrutkowski, Charles Weijer, Stan Shapiro, Abraham Fuks, Adrian Langleben, Benjamin Freedman
Charles Weijer
No abstract provided.
Bioethics For Clinicians: 16. Dealing With Demands For Inappropriate Treatment, Charles Weijer, Peter Singer, Bernard Dickens, Stephen Workman
Bioethics For Clinicians: 16. Dealing With Demands For Inappropriate Treatment, Charles Weijer, Peter Singer, Bernard Dickens, Stephen Workman
Charles Weijer
Demands by Patients or their Families for treatment thought to be inappropriate by health care providers constitute an important set of moral problems in clinical practice. A variety of approaches to such cases have been described in the literature, including medical futility, standard of care and negotiation. Medical futility fails because it confounds morally distinct cases: demand for an ineffective treatment and demand for an effective treatment that supports a controversial end (e.g., permanent unconsciousness). Medical futility is not necessary in the first case and is harmful in the second. Ineffective treatment falls outside the standard of care, and thus …
Cpr For Patients In A Persistent Vegetative State?, Charles Weijer
Cpr For Patients In A Persistent Vegetative State?, Charles Weijer
Charles Weijer
No abstract provided.
Self Interest Is Not The Sole Legitimate Basis For Making Decisions, Charles Weijer
Self Interest Is Not The Sole Legitimate Basis For Making Decisions, Charles Weijer
Charles Weijer
No abstract provided.
The Irb's Role In Assessing The Generalizability Of Non-Nih-Funded Clinical Trials, Charles Weijer
The Irb's Role In Assessing The Generalizability Of Non-Nih-Funded Clinical Trials, Charles Weijer
Charles Weijer
No abstract provided.
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation For Patients In A Persistent Vegetative State: Futile Or Acceptable?, Charles Weijer
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation For Patients In A Persistent Vegetative State: Futile Or Acceptable?, Charles Weijer
Charles Weijer
No abstract provided.
Assessing The Interpretation Of Criteria For Clinical Trial Eligibility: A Survey Of Oncology Investigators, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman, Stanley Shapiro, Abraham Fuks, Myriam Skrutkowska, Maria Sigurjonsdottir
Assessing The Interpretation Of Criteria For Clinical Trial Eligibility: A Survey Of Oncology Investigators, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman, Stanley Shapiro, Abraham Fuks, Myriam Skrutkowska, Maria Sigurjonsdottir
Charles Weijer
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether eligibility criteria that exclude the elderly, persons with psychiatric disease, and persons with substance abuse problems from participation in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are subjective and hence a source of variability in enrolment decisions and investigator uncertainty.
DESIGN: Survey questionnaire.
PARTICIPANTS: Cancer investigators from the United States and Canada.
INTERVENTIONS: Investigators were presented with clinical vignettes from 3 patient categories--eligible, ineligible and uncertain--for each of 5 eligibility criteria--3 subjective and 2 objective--and were asked whether they would enrol the patient in a trial and how sure they were of this decision. Demographic characteristics of the investigators …
A Study In Contrasts: Eligibility Criteria In A Twenty-Year Sample Of Nsabp And Pog Clinical Trials, Abraham Fuks, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman, Stanley Shapiro, Myriam Skrutkowska, Amina Riaz
A Study In Contrasts: Eligibility Criteria In A Twenty-Year Sample Of Nsabp And Pog Clinical Trials, Abraham Fuks, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman, Stanley Shapiro, Myriam Skrutkowska, Amina Riaz
Charles Weijer
We studied changes in eligibility criteria--the largest impediment to patient accrual--in two samples of clinical trials. Trials from the NSABP (National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Program) and POG (Pediatric Oncology Group) were analyzed. After eliminating duplications, the criteria in each protocol were enumerated and classified according to a novel schema. NSABP trials contained significantly more criteria than POG trials, and added precision criteria (making study populations homogeneous) at a faster rate than POG studies. The difference between NSABP studies (explanatory trials) and POG studies (pragmatic trials) suggest that large numbers of eligibility criteria are not necessary for quality studies. …
Reb Review Of Research Proposals Involving Placebo Controls, Charles Weijer
Reb Review Of Research Proposals Involving Placebo Controls, Charles Weijer
Charles Weijer
No abstract provided.
Society’S Choices: Social And Ethical Decision Making In Biomedicine, Charles Weijer
Society’S Choices: Social And Ethical Decision Making In Biomedicine, Charles Weijer
Charles Weijer
No abstract provided.
Research Methods And Policies, Charles Weijer