BMC medical ethics

BACKGROUND: Healthcare providers (HCPs) play a pivotal role in shaping access to and ethical deliberation around fertility preservation. While fertility preservation due to oncological and non-oncological diseases is widely accepted, its us…

BACKGROUND: Social Egg Freezing (SEF), often promoted in Western contexts as a means to enhance reproductive autonomy, has seen varied uptake in countries with wider gender disparities. In such settings, where reproductive decisions are sha…

BACKGROUND: Fertility preservation involves storing reproductive tissues or cells to enable reproduction later in life. It is often part of assisted reproduction but is also used independently. Our research aim is to study the European norm…

BACKGROUND: Egg providers have the right to complete and accurate information about egg donation before deciding to donate. Many seek information beyond clinics and agencies, relying on fertility clinic or agency websites and testimonials o…

BACKGROUND: Patient decision-making autonomy refers to the patients' ability to freely exert their own choices and make their own decisions, given sufficient resources and information to do so. In pain medicine, it is accepted that appropri…

INTRODUCTION: Considering the importance of complying medical and general ethics and the lack of a study on determining ethical considerations in the communication network of women undergoing hysterectomy surgery, this study aimed to presen…

BACKGROUND: Informed consent is a process in which a healthcare provider obtains permission from an individual prior to surgery. Patient satisfaction with the informed consent process is one of the main indicators of healthcare service qual…

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have found that the decision-making process for stored unused frozen embryos involves much emotional burden influenced by socio-cultural factors. This study aims to ascertain how Japanese patients make a decisio…