| Weekday Educational
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| Ethics & Economics |
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Organizers: Georg M. Bongartz, M.D., Claudia M. Hillenbrand, Ph.D.,
and Pia C. Maly Sundgren, M.D.,
Ph.D. |
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| Skill Level:
Basic - Intermediate |
| Wednesday, 5 May
2010 |
| 13:30 - 15:30 |
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OVERVIEW |
This two-hour course will focus on
different ethical and economic questions that affect clinical
practice and research, and how new ways of thinking and
predicted outcome based on evidence-based medicine might
influence the way we practice medicine and perform research. We
will cover the following issues:
- How much ethics can we afford?
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What to do with incidental findings in research.
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Implementation of evidence-based medicine in radiology.
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Maintaining integrity in drug trials and company-sponsored
trials.
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EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES |
Upon completion of this course
participants should be able to:
- Describe the main issues and
recognize the main costs related to the increasing number of
incidental findings seen in clinical MRI practice;
- Determine which incidental
findings discovered during research scans need to be reported
and which can be ignored;
- Describe strategies for
implementation of evidence–based medicine in radiology; and
- Maintain integrity when
participating in clinical, drug or other trials sponsored by
companies.
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