Mark Fedyk

3 days ago | jclinepi.com | Michel Shamy |Brian Dewar |Victoria Shepherd |Mark Fedyk

1The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada2Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada3Department of Medicine (Division of Neurology), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada4Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada5Centre for Trials Research, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom6School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA

Oct 5, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Michel Shamy |Brian Dewar |Mark Fedyk |Davis Davis USA

1 INTRODUCTION In an authoritative overview published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2022, Emanuel, Upshur and Maxwell explore the example of COVID-19 to highlight how ethics and medical policy-making are intrinsically linked; they emphasise the necessity of including ethical analysis when making medical decisions.1 Their work suggests an opportunity to similarly interrogate the role of ethical evaluation in other individual clinical scenarios.