non-maleficence
nonmaleficence

Non-maleficence - a doctor must not try to hurt his patients.

A further ethical principle is that of non-maleficence, to do no harm.

Non-maleficence would direct health care professionals to refrain from harming their patients.

Terms like beneficence and non-maleficence are vital to the overall understanding of medical ethics.

Violation of non-maleficence is the subject of medical malpractice litigation.

Medical ethics normally focus on four principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence and non-maleficence.

Beneficence and non-maleficence are two ethical principles that are related to each other.

Using the principles, benificence is clear, but adverse reactions compromise the principle of non-maleficence.

But taken to override other ethical principles within the doctor-patient relationship, non-maleficence is a prescription for doing nothing.

We need to refocus on the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice.

It is an issue of non-maleficence.

Non-maleficence then may properly become the basic moral obligation to everyone, irrespective of how lucky or unlucky their station in society is.

• Beneficence and non-maleficence: achieving the greatest possible good while doing the least possible harm.

It is based on the fundamental ethical principles of medicine, especially compassion, beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for persons and justice.

Non-maleficence is often contrasted with its corollary, beneficence.

An ethic which condones research using human embryos violates the standard ethical principle in medicine of non-maleficence.

Self-determination figures more or less the same in the first term of each values distinction, as does non-maleficence in the second term.

As for beneficence, non-maleficence (the "do no harm" of antiquity), and justice, the words speak for themselves.

Depending on the cultural consensus conditioning (expressed by its religious, political and legal social system) the legal definition of non-maleficence differs.

The principle of autonomy supports the procedure, while the principle of non-maleficence argues against it.

Nursing ethics shares many principles with medical ethics, such as beneficence, non-maleficence and respect for autonomy.

• ethical issues of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, respect for cultural diversity Thorne, S. et al.

It would be more accurate to say that non-maleficence is to security privacy as respect for persons is to self-determination privacy.

A doctor who suggests, however tentatively, that beneficence, non-maleficence and justice might have some useful contribution to the debate can have his card marked.

Traditionally philosophers refer to four prime principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence and non-maleficence (not knowingly doing harm).

Also provides background on ethical principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice.

Nonmaleficence is the other side of beneficence.

The Oath upholds the concepts of confidentiality, evidence-based medicine, and nonmaleficence.

It is based on the fundamental ethical principles of medicine, especially compassion, beneficence, nonmaleficence, respect for persons and justice.

Rocca (1998), however, objects to this attitude for two reasons, both of which are motivated by the principle of "nonmaleficence."

Principlism validates itself with its universally recognized moral principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice.

A principle directly related to harms-benefits analysis is nonmaleficence, or the duty to avoid, prevent or minimize harms to others.

At the same time as consent is devalued from the benign steward perspective, security (i.e., nonmaleficence) is emphasized.

Traditional bioethical principles in the area of health care services include respect for personal autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence and justice (of the 24 distributive kind).

Principlism has evolved into a practical approach for ethical decision-making that focuses on the common ground moral principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.

In her reflection about beneficence and nonmaleficence, Ruth considers the potential risks to the residents, and the commitments of the staff to benefit the residents.

Weinstein's work simplifies the principles, so that, for example, the principle of nonmaleficence becomes "do no harm", and the principle of beneficence becomes "make things better."

Proponents argue that administration of an empirically questionable treatment violates the general Principle A of the ethical principles of psychologist: Beneficence and nonmaleficence (or "do no harm").

Annotation: A discussion of ethical methodology in biomedical research, including four principles that apply to medicine, research and health care delivery: The principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice.

The beneficence and nonmaleficence principle of the APA general principles guides psychologists to perform work that is beneficial to others yet does not hurt anyone in the process of carrying out that work.

The APA Code is based on five principles: Beneficence and Nonmaleficence, Fidelity and Responsibility, Integrity, Justice, and Respect for People's Rights and Dignity.

Likewise, nonmaleficence is maximized, by maximizing autonomy, beneficence, and justice and beneficence is maximized, by maximizing autonomy, nonmaleficence, and justice.

Ethical theories of justice, derived from the moral theories of Kant, Rawls, Mills, and others, have led to the use of bioethical principles of beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice in medical decision making.

Rather the sufficient condition is that most individuals and societies, would agree that both prescriptively and descriptively there is wide agreement with the existence and acceptance of the general values of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice.

To the extent that justice is socially valued because of how it effectively establishes autonomy, nonmaleficence, and beneficence, both personally and socially, it can be argued that Principlism only needs its fourth principle-justice, in order to fulfill its moral function.

Principlism could be modified by adding or subtracting certain component principles yet practically the four principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice are broad and comprehensive enough to sufficiently cover most cases and will provide the necessary output power for making interdisciplinary moral decisions.

Ethical principles - beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy and justice (fairness, confidentiality, integrity, competence, dignity, respect of others) such as those applied in the National First Nations and Inuit Regional Health Surveys - should be included in the design of any telehealth research project.

What informs such deemphasis of consent, I believe, is not the privacy-safeguarding imperative (grounded in nonmaleficence), but an imperative of an entirely different sort that is not a privacy imperative at all, namely, the imperative of access to personal information for public good purposes believed to be of overriding importance.

The tenets of beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice are part of a framework needed to balance the complex and potentially conflicting factors surrounding a clinician's role in respecting privacy, confidentiality and fair use of genetic information obtained from cancer genetic testing.

Nonmaleficence is the bioethical code that directs health care providers to do no harm, inclusive of physical and emotional harm, and acknowledges that medical care involves risks and benefits.