Abstract Objective: The aim of this project was to examine the consequences and effects of forced medication on patients with mental disorders. Methods: A systematic search for relevant studies published between 1994 and ...

Formål: Undersøke norske medisinstudenters holdninger til reservasjonsrett. Metode: En spørreundersøkelse ble distribuert til norske 5. og 6. års medisinstudenter. Resultat: 531 av 893 studenter (59 %) besvarte ...

Flertallet dør i dag av kroniske sykdommer i sykehus eller annen institusjon. Å ikke motta unødig livsforlengende behandling regnes av mange som en av forutsetningene for en god død. Oppgaven sammenligner den norske ...

Background: End-of- life care poses fundamental ethical problems to clinicians. Development of new technology within medical and science have made it possible to keep patients alive with life-sustaining medical treatments ...

Aim: To study attitudes of Norwegian pediatricians regarding ethical dilemmas related to acute, life-saving treatment. Methods: A questionnaire describing 6 currently incompetent patients who need resuscitation, was ...

To the extent possible, psychiatric treatment should be based on the patient’s voluntary consent. However, when the patient presents a high risk of suicide and refuses treatment, many clinicians consider it necessary to ...

What are the religious views on abortion of the Catholic Church, the Sunni Islam and Judaism? And what challenges may arise for a religious doctor if compared with the Norwegian laws on the matter? This has been the student ...

Our objective was to assess and compare the attitudes to abortion among medical students in their 1st year and students in their 4th/5th year who had completed their obstetrics and gynaecology teaching at the four different ...

In the last 20-30 years an increasing number of studies on lesbian parents and the development of their children has been published. PubMed/Medline was used to identify studies for inclusion in this assignment on lesbian ...

Background: Today all Norwegian hospital trusts have at least one clinical ethics committee (CEC). Part of their mandate is to give advice and guide hospital clinicians in ethically challenging situations. We wanted to ...

Når en gravid kvinne ikke ønsker et keisersnitt anbefalt av helsepersonell av hensyn til barnet, oppstår det en konflikt. Kvinnens rett til selvbestemmelse kommer i opposisjon til fosterets rett til liv. Samtidig kommer ...

A patient’s opportunity to affect and participate in decision-making with regard to their own medical care is considered important. Most patients want some control over their medical care, including or even especially, ...

Background: The ethical challenges concerning stem cell research and the use of SCNT (Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer), also known as “therapeutic cloning”, have been the subject of heated debates for almost two decades. ...

OBJECTIVES: Find out which problems related to pharmaceutic industry the massmedia are debating, and see if there are differences between what is written in a public newspaper contra journals for health professionals. ...

Many vaccines against viral deceases are produced in cell-lines derived from aborted human fetal tissue. These vaccines, excamplified by vaccination against German measles (Rubella) which has no available alternatives, ...

Why The Sudbø-story only was as a story about Sudbø A disscusion of the Sudbø-case with basis in the Vancouver-group requirements for authorship ABSTRACT: ICMJE revised the uniform Requirements for manuscripts ...

To the extent possible, all treatment should be based on the patient s voluntary and informed consent. However, the capacity to consent may be impaired or limited for several reasons, and the legal competence to consent ...

This paper gives an account of the ways of thinking that are prevalent in the discussion about matters of priority in the Norwegian health service. Additional focus has been given to some particular factors concerning ...

BACKGROUND In November 2004 an evaluation of the clinical ethics committees at Norwegian hospital trusts was completed. This study is a follow up study on the part of that project which explored the development and existence ...

The purpose of "Memento Mori", is to illustrate behavioral and affective parameters that death and dying imposes, through a study of existential literature. The purpose of the exercise is to give a non-evaluative presentation ...

In 2002 the Norwegian Board of Health made guidelines for do-not-resuscitate (DNR)-orders. Several articles in the previous years had shown lack of such guidelines in Norwegian hospitals. We wanted to find out about the ...

Most decisions regarding allocation of scarce medical resources such as organ transplants, and prioritising between patients waiting for organ transplantation, is in most cases straightforward. The empirical knowledge of ...

This paper is a literature study of human rights in elder care in Norway. The population of elderly is increasing, so also incidents of abuse and neglect. It’s estimated that about 4% of the elderly in Norway are victims ...