Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
-
Forget tea and biscuits, why should doctors get any gifts from pharma companies?
Published 2013-10-22The Australian Medical Association (AMA) and medical specialist groups are currently debating public disclosure of gifts received by doctors from pharmaceutical companies. The bone of contention is how valuable the freebies ...Open AccessArticle -
Formulating an Ethics Agenda for Drug Development, Regulation, and Utilization
Published 2013-01-01An Invitation: The time has come to examine the ethical dimensions of our pharmaceutical and device enterprise more broadly. In this inaugural edition of Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science (TIRS), Lipworth et al ...Open AccessArticle -
Can the Theoretical Domains Framework account for the implementation of clinical quality interventions? A qualitative synthesis and mapping experiment.
Published 2013-01-01Background The health care quality improvement movement is a complex enterprise. Implementing clinical quality initiatives requires attitude and behaviour change on the part of clinicians, but this has proven to be ...Open AccessArticle -
Umbilical cord blood banking: public good or private benefit? In reply.
Published 2008-01-01IN REPLY: Roberts asserts that we are biased, paternalistic and driven by an ideological objection to private umbilical cord blood (UCB) storage. While this is impressive rhetoric, it bears little resemblance to the ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Time for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee to set its own agenda
Published 2012-01-01Drug subsidy recommendations should be informed by active assessment of current evidence and emerging treatments. Decisions about which medicines should be subsidised by the Australian Government on the Pharmaceutical ...Open AccessArticle