To comprehensively understand the ethical issues involved when communicating with research participants through the Internet, researchers developed an ethical framework and practical guidelines to ...

Rohit Chopra is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Santa Clara University and a Faculty Scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. Along with its ...

This review paper analyzes the ethical implications of billing patients for electronic communication with physicians through electronic health records, a practice already adopted by medical ...

Non-maleficence (do no harm) and beneficence (seeking to benefit) are two fundamental principles in research ethics requiring the maximization of benefits and minimization of potential harms. These ...

Strategic communication professionals, civil society advocates, and corporate executives have urged businesses to prioritise consumer education, data protection, and inclusive messaging in order to ...

The Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication brings together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to expand opportunities for all to contribute to and benefit from the ...

Since its inception, the Internet has fundamentally changed all parts of human society for both good and ill, and medical research is no exception. The fast pace of change enabled by digital ...