Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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The epistemic challenges of CTOs
Published 2014-01-01Controversy around the use of community treatment orders (CTOs) arises in part from their ambiguous evidence base. Recent research has provided valuable new insights into the effects of CTOs, while also highlighting the ...Open AccessArticle -
The Role of Personalized Choice in Decision Support: A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Decision Aid for Prostate Cancer Screening
Published 2016-04-01Importance Decision support tools can assist people to apply population-based evidence on benefits and harms to individual health decisions. A key question is whether “personalising” choice within decisions aids leads to ...Open AccessArticle -
Impure Politics and Pure Science: Efficacious Ebola Medications Are Only a Palliation and Not a Cure for Structural Disadvantage
Published 2015-04-09Caplan and colleagues (2015) present a strong argument for using alternative trial designs for experimental treatments for Ebola virus disease (EVD). This argument is, of course, not new. There is a significant body of ...Open AccessArticle -
Access to new cancer medicines in Australia: dispelling the myths and informing a public debate
Published 2016-01-01Despite the high level of spending on cancer medicines in Australia, consumer organisations and the pharmaceutical industry often make claims of delayed or lack of access to new cancer medicines—claims that are frequently ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
The future of conference posters: ‘hipster and geek!’
Published 2015-04-01What problems were addressed? Our abstract for a workshop at a national general practitioner (GP) conference was accepted … in the form of a poster! How could a workshop designed as a focus group, intended to provide a ...Open AccessArticle