Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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To follow a rule? On frontline clinicians’ understandings and embodiments of hospital-acquired infection prevention and control rules.
Published 2018-01-01This article reports on a study of clinicians’ responses to footage of their enactments of infection prevention and control. The study’s approach was to elicit clinicians’ reflections on and clarifications about the ...Open AccessArticle -
Should disclosure of conflict of interests in medicine be public? Medical students' views.
Published 2017-01-01Background: Conflicts of interest are considered to be ubiquitous in healthcare and biomedicine. Disclosure of relevant interests is a first step in managing conflicts, although its usefulness is contested. While several ...Open AccessArticle -
Decoding disclosure: Comparing conflict of interest policy among the United States, France, and Australia.
Published 2018-01-01“Sunshine” policy, aimed at making financial ties between health professionals and industry publicly transparent, has recently gone global. Given that transparency is not the sole means of managing conflict of interest, ...Open AccessArticle -
Access to high cost cancer medicines through the lens of an Australian Senate Inquiry - defining the 'goods' at stake.
Published 2017-01-01In Australia, the government is the primary payer for cancer medicines, and is supported by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations about which medicines should be funded on the ...Open AccessArticle -
Debates about conflict of interest in medicine: Deconstructing a divided discourse.
Published 2017-01-01Rationale: The pharmaceutical industry plays an increasingly dominant role in health care, raising concerns about “conflicts of interest” (COI) on the part of the medical professionals who interact with the industry. These ...Open AccessArticle