Ethics This essay will discuss the ethical safeguards for clinical research that may not apply to evidence-based projects. Additionally, this essay will discuss ethical controversies related to two ethical exemplars. In conclusion, patients’ ethical responsibility in improving healthcare will be explored.
Ethical Safeguards
Clinical research involves the study of investigational analysis of data or experiments that involve humans. To protect people from being harmed and to ensure that researchers adhere to a strict code of conduct, the development of ethical codes and regulations were created. However, ethical safeguards intended to regulate clinical research may not be appropriate for evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation because …show more content…
2.) Projects to increase quality may actually result in lower quality outcomes or ineffective results.
3.) Certain research investigations may be defined more as clinical research than quality improvement. To avoid confusion when implementing clinical research or EBP, practice full transparency. List the pros and cons of the study or EBP. Fully disclose the entire procedure from beginning to end in writing and make it available for viewing by anyone. In the end, provide documentation of the results weather they were positive or negative.
Additionally, Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt (2015) lists the Fifteen Ethical Principles of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights for clinical research (as cited in United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2008) to include the following:
1. Human dignity and human rights
2. Benefit and harm
3. Autonomy and individual responsibility
4. …show more content…
These ethical codes and regulations were put in place to protect people from being harmed and to ensure that researchers adhere to a strict code of conduct and to follow four ethical principles including beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice, and fidelity. According to Resnik (2017) historical events that have occurred that prompted regulation for healthcare research included the Tuskegee Syphilis Study involving four hundred African American men who were never treated or even told they had syphilis and the intentional inoculation of hepatitis on mentally disabled children to observe the progression of
Ethical Safeguards
Clinical research involves the study of investigational analysis of data or experiments that involve humans. To protect people from being harmed and to ensure that researchers adhere to a strict code of conduct, the development of ethical codes and regulations were created. However, ethical safeguards intended to regulate clinical research may not be appropriate for evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation because …show more content…
2.) Projects to increase quality may actually result in lower quality outcomes or ineffective results.
3.) Certain research investigations may be defined more as clinical research than quality improvement. To avoid confusion when implementing clinical research or EBP, practice full transparency. List the pros and cons of the study or EBP. Fully disclose the entire procedure from beginning to end in writing and make it available for viewing by anyone. In the end, provide documentation of the results weather they were positive or negative.
Additionally, Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt (2015) lists the Fifteen Ethical Principles of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights for clinical research (as cited in United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2008) to include the following:
1. Human dignity and human rights
2. Benefit and harm
3. Autonomy and individual responsibility
4. …show more content…
These ethical codes and regulations were put in place to protect people from being harmed and to ensure that researchers adhere to a strict code of conduct and to follow four ethical principles including beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice, and fidelity. According to Resnik (2017) historical events that have occurred that prompted regulation for healthcare research included the Tuskegee Syphilis Study involving four hundred African American men who were never treated or even told they had syphilis and the intentional inoculation of hepatitis on mentally disabled children to observe the progression of