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16Ethical Concerns of Patients and Family Members Arising During Illness or Medical CareAJOB Empirical Bioethics 14 (4): 218-226. 2023.Patients and family members (N = 671) were surveyed in five Mid-Atlantic U.S. hospitals to ascertain the number and kinds of ethical concerns they are presently experiencing or have previously experienced while being sick or receiving medical care. Seventy percent of participants had at least one (range 0–14) type of ethical concern or question. The most commonly experienced concerns pertained to being unsure how to plan ahead or complete an advance directive (29.4%), being unsure whether someon…Read more
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13Challenges facing Arab researchers in conducting and publishing scientific research: a qualitative interview studyResearch Ethics 20 (2): 331-362. 2024.Arab researchers encounter formidable obstacles when conducting and publishing their scientific work. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 17 Arab researchers from various Arab Middle East countries to gain a comprehensive understanding of the difficulties they face in research and publication. We analyzed the transcripts using reflexive thematic analysis. Our findings revealed several key challenges. First, Arab researchers struggle to conduct high-quality research due to limited resour…Read more
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12Perspectives regarding privacy in clinical research among research professionals from the Arab region: an exploratory qualitative studyBMC Medical Ethics 21 (1): 1-16. 2020.Background Protecting the privacy of research participants is widely recognized as one of the standard ethical requirements for clinical research. It is unknown, however, how research professionals regard concepts of privacy as well as the situations in the research setting that require privacy protections. The aim of this study was to explore the views of research professionals from Arab countries regarding concepts and scope of privacy that occur in clinical research. Methods We adopted an exp…Read more
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12Care Coordination and Utilization Review: Clinical Case Managers’ Perceptions of Dual Role ObligationsJournal of Clinical Ethics 13 (3): 216-229. 2002.
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9What Counts as Equipoise?Hastings Center Report 45 (3): 3-4. 2015.A commentary on “SUPPORT: Risks, Harms, and Equipoise,” by Robert M. Nelson; “The Controversy over SUPPORT Continues and the Hyperbole Increases,” by Alan R. Fleischman; and “SUPPORT and the Ethics of Study Implementation,” by John D. Lantos and Chris Feudtner, all in the January‐February 2015 issue.
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6Research Ethics in the Arab Region (edited book)Imprint: Springer. 2017.This book addresses the pressing issues involved with the ethical conduct of research in one developing world region - the Arab Region. Clinical research has soared in the developing world -as pharmaceutical companies continue their search for regions with large, treatment naive populations - including the Arab region, and has profound implications for the health and the economies for the area. The ethical issues involved with the conduct of such research, however, have so far not been adequatel…Read more
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1Care Coordination and Utilization Review: Clinical Case Managers’ Perceptions of Dual Role ObligationsJournal of Clinical Ethics 13 (3): 216-229. 2002.
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University of Maryland at BaltimoreRegular Faculty
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America