3 results match your criteria: "The Institute for Studies of the Medical Profession[Affiliation]"

Background: Whether patients' life-style should involve lower priority for treatment is a controversial question in bioethics. Less is known about clinicians' views.

Aim: To study how clinical doctors' attitudes to questions of patient responsibility and priority vary over time.

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Objectives: To understand how doctors reflect on when and why they seek help from an organised peer-support service.

Design: Data were collected through audiotaped, qualitative, semi-structured interviews. The interviews were analysed with systematic text condensation.

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Physician characteristics influence the trends in resuscitation decisions at different ages.

Acta Paediatr

December 2018

Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Aim: We examined how physicians in different medical specialties would evaluate treatment decisions for vulnerable patients in need of resuscitation.

Methods: A survey depicting six acutely ill patients from newborn infant to aged, all in need of resuscitation with similar prognoses, was distributed (in 2009) to a representative sample of 1650 members of the Norwegian Medical Association and 676 members of the Norwegian Pediatric Association.

Results: There were 1335 respondents (57% participation rate).

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