Objective: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have developed visitor
restriction policies in order to mitigate spread of infection. We reviewed hospital visitor …

Background Best interests is a ubiquitous principle in medical policy and practice, informing
the treatment of both children and adults. Yet theory underlying the concept of best interests …

Abstract Background In December 2017, Law 219/2017,'Provisions for informed consent
and advance directives', was approved in Italy. The law is the culmination of a year-long …

Informed consent is required for all medical investigations and procedures and is
considered a corner stone of modern medicine. This review article examines the question …

Background Ethical issues regarding patient care have recently been raised in Italy by the
case of Eluana Englaro, a 36-year-old woman who remained in a persistent vegetative state …

A critical controversy surrounds the type of allowable interventions to be carried out in
patients who are potential organ donors, in an attempt to improve organ perfusion and …

Little is understood about the dynamic circumstances within which the initiation of
technology dependence takes place in children. The aim of this scoping review was to …

Older people are, like younger people, citizens in the communities of the nations in which
they live. This book sees ageing as a life journey that incorporates a process of citizening, in …

Philosophers have mostly advocated that advance directives should bear the same
authority, with regard to refusal of life-extending treatment, as a patient's contemporaneous …

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund und Fragestellung: Der Wissenstand und die
Werthaltungen, die bezüglich der Patientenverfügung in der Bevölkerung herrschen, sind …