Many medical students feel inadequately prepared to address end-of-life issues, including patient death. This study aimed examine students' first experiences of the deaths patients in their care.Final-year at Schulich School Medicine & Dentistry, University Western Ontario were invited share experience death a care. The could choose participate through telephone interviews, focus groups or e-mail. All responses audiotaped, transcribed verbatim and analysed using grounded theory...

Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) is a technology which provides information about fetal genetic characteristics (including sex) very early in pregnancy by examining DNA obtained from sample of maternal blood. NIPT morally complex that has advanced quickly to market with strong push industry developers, leaving many areas uncertainty still be resolved, and creating need for health policy reflects women's social ethical values. We approach the policy-making studying use emerging province...

The increase in bioethics education preclinical curricula enables medical students to recognize ethical issues and determine right action. authors sought explore the dilemmas experience during clinical clerkships.Following an e-mail invitation, 100 of 104 graduating allowed their final ethics assignment, a written description dilemma experienced clerkship, be analyzed. After all identifiers were removed, narratives underwent qualitative analysis then reanalyzed using Jameton's determinants...

Current developments in science and the media have now placed pregnant women a precarious situation as they are charged with responsibility to navigate through information sources make best decisions for her pregnancy. Yet little is known regarding how want receive use health general, let alone uncertain risks pregnancy everyday household products such phthalates found cosmetics canned food liners. Using an example, this study investigated obtain, evaluate, act on their Pregnant were...

Although policies to restrict residents' duty hours are pervasive, resident adherence restricted has proved challenging. The authors sought describe postcall behaviors and understand the dominant rationalizations underpinning their decisions stay or not after a 24-hour shift.Using constructivist grounded theory methodology, conducted semistructured interviews with 24 residents across six surgical nonsurgical specialty programs at one Canadian institution during 2012. They analyzed...

Anonymity, according to Tilley and Woodthorpe, refers removing or obscuring participant information, whereas “confidentiality the management of private information.” Both are major considerations for ethics review boards, but can be challenges when “studying up” in qualitative research because depth, precision, uniqueness prominence participants. In anthropology, providing detailed nuanced accounts particular spaces, events, conditions is essential. Actions taken hide gloss over these...

Canadian clinicians must be aware of new standards care resulting from national clinical practice guidelines, both to ensure best practice[1][1],[2][2] and avoid malpractice litigation.[3][3],[4][4] Clinical guidelines can reduce successful actions through physician

Limited clinical research with pregnant women has resulted in insufficient data to promote evidence-informed prenatal care. Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory methodology was used explore how would be determined ethically acceptable from the perspectives of women, health care providers, and researchers reproductive sciences. Semistructured interviews were conducted a purposive sample 12 10 nine science researchers. All three groups suggested importance informed consent that permissible...

This study explores the views of pregnant women and clinicians regarding discussion exposure to phthalate plasticizers during pregnancy, subsequent 2011 Health Canada ban certain phthalates at a concentration greater than 1000 mg/kg in baby toys. occurred with no regulation products which are exposed, such as food packaging cosmetics. Pregnant women, physicians midwives were recruited through posters pamphlets prenatal clinics Southwestern Ontario for semi-structured interview. All...

Informed consent is based on communication, requiring language to convey meanings and ensure understandings. The purpose of this study was investigate the use in informed documents used genetics research funded by Canadian Institutes Health Research Genome Canada. Consent were requested from principal investigators a recent round funding. A qualitative content analysis performed, supported NVivo7™. Potential barriers identified, including that vague variable, words with both technical common...

Purpose As resident work hours policies evolve, residents’ off-duty time remains poorly understood. Despite assumptions about how residents should be using their postcall, time, there is little research on actually use this and the reasoning underpinning activities. This study sought to understand nonclinical postcall activities when they leave hospital, decision-making processes, perspectives relationship between these well-being or recovery. Method The took place at a Liaison Committee...

In Canada, 15% of women report having a disability, most frequently mobility-related. Research with disabilities has for decades brought attention to barriers reproductive health promotion. physicians regarding why these exist and how they can be dissolved not occurred. Physicians were recruited through email pamphlets participate in 30-45 minute in-person interviews, audiotaped transcribed verbatim. Charmaz-based qualitative analysis was supported by NVivo10TM software. Twenty-five...