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P Riis

Publications and source records attributed to P Riis.

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PubMed1997

Simple guidelines for experimental reports, documentation and storage of data. A new initiative to further research integrity.

Since 1992, the Danish Medical Research Council has taken several initiatives to oppose scientific misconduct. One preventive measure has been the development of concise guidelines for the presentation of experimental reports and data documentation. After revisions and accept by the major user institutions, these guidelines have been well-received by a large number of research units and are made available to all Ph.D. students and their supervisors. We here describe the motives for the choice of guidelines and how they are adapted to the requirements of ongoing medical research in Denmark.

Clinical Medicine↗
PubMed1996

Gastroenterology in the last decennia and initiatives in medical ethics: coincidence or linkage?

A quarter of a century ago ethics was an esoteric term, known to theologians and philosophers, but unknown as a discipline to the majority of doctors. Since then, however, ethics has become a substantial part of clinical medicine and health research. Ethics as an area of interest for Danish gastroenterologists appeared from several foci in the early days. One angle was an almost revival-like interest in research methodology and its ethical dimensions. Other angles were derived from Danish gastroenterologists' experiences transferred from other disciplines before the birth of Danish gastroenterology. From the time of these early incentives Danish gastroenterologists have constituted a platform for the implementation of the basic principles, lying behind medical ethics, now in collaboration with other parts of the medical profession. The topics are reflected in a number of publications and in the various practical diversions. An interest in information of patients appeared at an early stage. Publication ethics as a subdiscipline involved Danish gastroenterologists and has led to contributions within the framework of the International Group of Medical Journal Editors. Research ethics, a central topic throughout all years, has led to such important initiatives as the Second Helsinki Declaration and the establishment of a national control system for medical research in man. A further ramification of ethics is scientific dishonesty and good clinical practice. Here a recent initiative has led to the establishment of a national Committee on Scientific Dishonesty. Under the auspices of the OMGE (Organisation Mondiale de Gastroentérologie) Danish gastroenterologists have investigated transnational and transcultural differences in gastroenterologists' attitudes to information of patients and relatives and have unmasked considerable and important differences throughout the world. Medical ethics has, together with scientific methodology, to some extent reunited the sub-specialized fragments of the mother disciplines medicine and surgery and in this way has acted as partes pro toto.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1996

Medical negligence.

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Attitude to Health↗
PubMed1995

Research ethics--a widening of the scope and extrapolation into the future.

Until recently, the concept of research ethics covered only the safety of, and the respect for, the research subject, i.e. the trial patient and the healthy volunteer. The reason was obviously that human research subjects are the most vulnerable of all key persons involved in biomedical research, and the fact that this vulnerability was made tragically visible through the atrocities of World War II. Not in any way to detract importance from this part of research ethics these years experience a widening of the conceptual scope, involving not only the researcher and his or her honesty but also society as a whole, not just duties and rights considered unilaterally but bilaterally. And further, including perspectives as science freedom and a given generation's responsibility for its global fellow-men and for future generations.

Ethics, Medical↗
PubMed1995

Genetics in democratic societies--the Nordic perspective.

This report, with its emphasis on consensus points in the deliberations of the First Bioethics Workshop under the auspices of the Nordic Genome Initiative (an activity under the Nordic Council through its Nordic Programme Committee for Biotechnology), presents a Nordic perspective on the international discussion of ethical and legal issues relating to genetic testing. The Nordic countries have important common denominators with respect to political structure, education, religion, languages, cultural traditions and attitudes towards human values. A comprehensive national health service exists in all Nordic countries and there are important common legal foundations with great similarities between countries. However, in areas related to biotechnology there are considerable legal differences, but these differences do not necessarily reflect differences in underlying principles. Important ethical principles relevant to genetic testing that are shared by the Nordic countries include the concept of social justice with great stress on equality of treatment, the right to autonomy, the right to full disclosure of test results, strict confidentiality with respect to test results, the requirement that participation in testing programs must always be voluntary and based on information, and a responsible balance between risks or inconveniences on one hand and benefits on the other.

Abortion, Induced↗