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Algorithmic Legal Metrics
Predictive algorithms are increasingly being deployed in a variety of settings to determine legal status. Algorithmic predictions have been used to determine provision of health care and social services, to allocate state resources, and to anticipate criminal behavior or activity. Further applications have been proposed to determine civil and crimi...
Patient privacy and autonomy: a comparative analysis of cases of ethical dilemmas in China and the United States
Published in BMC Medical Ethics
BackgroundRespect for patients’ autonomy is usually considered to be an important ethical principle in Western countries; privacy is one of the implications of such respect. Healthcare professionals frequently encounter ethical dilemmas during their practice. The past few decades have seen an increased use of courts to resolve intractable ethical d...
Assessing the impact of a restrictive opioid prescribing law in West Virginia
Published in Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
BackgroundThe Opioid Reduction Act (SB 273) took effect in West Virginia in June 2018. This legislation limited ongoing chronic opioid prescriptions to 30 days’ supply, and first-time opioid prescriptions to 7 days’ supply for surgeons and 3 days’ for emergency rooms and dentists. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of this legisl...
Why Death Need Not Be “Reasonably Foreseeable”—The Proposed Legislative Response to Truchon and Gladu v Attorney General...
Published in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
The reality of informed consent: empirical studies on patient comprehension—systematic review
Published in Trials
BackgroundInformed consent is a basic concept of contemporary, autonomy-based medical practice and facilitates a shared decision-making model for relations between physicians and patients. Thus, the extent to which patients can comprehend the consent they grant is essential to the ethical viability of medicine as it is pursued today. However, resea...
Supported Decision-Making and Paradigm Shifts: Word Play or Real Change?
Article 12(3) CRPD requires states parties to provide access by persons with disabilities to the support they may require in exercising their legal capacity. This is to ensure that the rights, will and preferences of persons with disabilities are enjoyed on an equal basis with others [Articles 12(1)(2) and (4) CRPD]. Moreover, the Committee on the ...
Protocol: mixed-methods study of how implementation of US state medical cannabis laws affects treatment of chronic non-c...
Published in Implementation Science
BackgroundThirty-three US states and Washington, D.C., have enacted medical cannabis laws allowing patients with chronic non-cancer pain to use cannabis, when recommended by a physician, to manage their condition. However, clinical guidelines do not recommend cannabis for treatment of chronic non-cancer pain due to limited and mixed evidence of eff...
Statsråds ansvar för myndigheters bristande verksamhet / Minister Accountability for Governmental Agencies
Den successiva relevansens princip : En analys av utfallet av HD:s avgörande i NJA 2019 s 802 avseende domstolens prövni...
