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Question 3 • AA - S26 Introduction to Healthcare Science

Select all the issues that healthcare professionals face in medical research and at the end of a patient’s life.

Answer

ensuring that research participants do not know they are part of a research study

preserving patients’ autonomy

ensuring that research participants give their consent

allowing patients to make decisions about life support

using ethical guidance to proceed with end-of-life-care for a patient

avoiding the use of ethics to proceed with end-of-life-care for a patient

Explanation

Healthcare professionals must respect patients’ autonomy and make sure research participants give informed consent. At the end of life, patients should be involved in decisions about life support, and professionals use ethical guidance to help make care decisions. Keeping research participants unaware that they are in a study is not a general ethical requirement, and avoiding ethical guidance would be inappropriate.

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