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Ethics in Laboratory Medicine: Perspectives and Challenges in Resource Limited Settings

Currently diagnosis and management of patients in Clinical Practice is very much dependent on laboratory diagnostics. Laboratory Medicine, like any other branch of Medicine, is therefore, mandated with ethical usage of materials and data obtained from patients. Several countries, professional societ...

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Autor principal: Datta, Sudip Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Communications and Publications Division (CPD) of the IFCC 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7745303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33376467
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description Currently diagnosis and management of patients in Clinical Practice is very much dependent on laboratory diagnostics. Laboratory Medicine, like any other branch of Medicine, is therefore, mandated with ethical usage of materials and data obtained from patients. Several countries, professional societies and the have developed policies and guidance materials on ethical issues related to laboratory medicine. However, ethical standards and practices vary between different cultures, geographies, legal architecture and according to available resources. In this article, we try to understand the challenges presented in terms of Ethics, where there are constraints of resources.
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spelling pubmed-77453032020-12-28 Ethics in Laboratory Medicine: Perspectives and Challenges in Resource Limited Settings Datta, Sudip Kumar EJIFCC Methods Article Currently diagnosis and management of patients in Clinical Practice is very much dependent on laboratory diagnostics. Laboratory Medicine, like any other branch of Medicine, is therefore, mandated with ethical usage of materials and data obtained from patients. Several countries, professional societies and the have developed policies and guidance materials on ethical issues related to laboratory medicine. However, ethical standards and practices vary between different cultures, geographies, legal architecture and according to available resources. In this article, we try to understand the challenges presented in terms of Ethics, where there are constraints of resources. The Communications and Publications Division (CPD) of the IFCC 2020-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7745303/ /pubmed/33376467 Text en Copyright © 2020 International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC). All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is a Platinum Open Access Journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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