If we assume for the purposes of discussion that the studies are in all other respects ethically robust and approved by relevant ethics committee, should SS and Fatima be allowed to participate?
The more companies promote the value of their brands, the more they will need to seem ethically robust and environmentally pure.
Thus, particular care should be taken to avoid coercion and to ensure that the basis for the patient's entry into the trial is sound and ethically robust.
As it is we compared two commonly used aids to ECV in our setting, which in our view is ethically robust.
What this means is that there are good reasons for high quality, ethically robust, medical research in children to be supported and encouraged.
Determining the parameters of what should be offered as part of an ethically robust prenatal screening programme in the public realm is important as it will set a clear standard for the use of NIPT.
On the whole, the emphasis placed on respect for patient autonomy on the one hand and on preventing harm to patients on the other seems to give an ethically robust reference point.
In the meantime we provide step-by-step guidance as to how to use values in policy making within the context of breast screening in order to develop ethically robust communication strategies for consumers.
It is important to continue to examine the potential that feedback has for harm as well as good, so that any feedback given is ethically robust and avoids becoming a simple box-ticking exercise.
Further, human rights better protect privacy than status quo informed consent arrangements or bioethical norms alone, for they can (1) hold data users legally accountable, (2) promote feasible, ethically robust standards of data governance, and (3) treat privacy and scientific advancement and its benefits as human rights (not mere interests) to promote, respect, fulfill, and balance.
We thus propose the following directly relevant principles from this approach as an ethically robust and pragmatically useful framework for exploring and converging on protocols for the optimal patient application of surgical implants: (I) human dignity and human rights, (II) benefit and harm, (III) autonomy and consent, and (IV) justice.
