Ethics in the operating room: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objective

The act of surgery involves harming vulnerable patients with the intent that the results will improve their health and, ultimately, help the patients. Such activities will inevitably entail moral decisions, yet the ethics of surgery has only recently developed as a field of medical ethics. Within this field, it is striking how few accounts there are of actions within the operating room. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate how much of the scientific publications on surgical ethics focus on what take place inside the operating room and to explore the ethical issues included in the publications that focus on medical ethics in the operating room.

Methods

We conducted a systematic search of the Medline and Embase databases using a PICO model

SUBMITTER: Agledahl KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11550563 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature