Search Strategy Used to Create the Bioethics Subset on PubMed

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This strategy was created by NLM and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University to facilitate searching for citations to articles in the area of bioethics. This subset can also be used in a search as bioethics [sb].
Example: euthanasia AND bioethics [sb]

Strategy last modified January 2008.

jsubsete OR ethical [ti] OR ethically [ti] OR ethico OR ethics [mh] OR ethics [ti] OR ethics [sh]
OR ethicist OR ethicists OR bioethic OR bioethical OR bioethicist OR bioethicists OR bioethics
OR abortion, criminal [majr] OR abortion, eugenic [majr] OR ((abortion, induced [majr:noexp]
OR  abortion, legal [majr]) NOT animals [mh:noexp] AND (attitude [mh] OR public opinion OR
coercion OR decision making [mh] OR prenatal diagnosis [majr] OR pregnancy trimester, third
[mh] OR women's health services OR women's rights [mh])) OR (abortion, legal [majr] AND
trends) OR (abortion, therapeutic [majr]  AND (attitude [mh] OR public opinion OR coercion
OR decision making [mh] OR women's rights [mh])) OR advance directive adherence OR
advance directives OR animal care committees OR animal rights OR animal experimentation
[majr:noexp] OR (laboratory animals AND (animal welfare/lj [majr:noexp] OR (animal welfare
[majr] AND (laboratory animals [mh:noexp] OR experimentation [ti] OR research [ti] OR
research [majr:noexp] OR animals, genetically modified [majr])))) OR (animal experimentation
[mh] AND animal welfare [mh:noexp]) OR vivisection [majr] OR anonymous testing [majr] OR
beginning of human life [mh] OR ((biomedical enhancement [mh:noexp] OR clinical trials as
topic/lj [majr] OR embryo disposition [mh] OR (embryo research [mh] AND (economics OR
cryopreservation OR fertilization in vitro OR social control, formal)) OR embryo research [majr]
OR euthanasia, active [mh:noexp] OR fetal research [mh] OR genetic enhancement [majr] OR
withholding treatment [majr] OR posthumous conception) AND humans [mh]) OR (euthanasia
[ti] AND humans) OR (euthanasia [mh:noexp] AND (humans [mh] OR history [sh] OR political
systems)) OR euthanasia, active, voluntary OR euthanasia, passive OR civil rights [majr] OR
(capital punishment [majr] AND (attitude of health personnel [mh] OR physicians [majr] OR
pharmacists [majr] OR professional role [majr] OR medical specialties [majr])) OR
(commitment of mentally ill [majr] AND (attitude OR public opinion OR coercion OR
jurisprudence [mh:noexp] OR lj [sh])) OR commodification [mh] OR commodification [ti] OR
confidentiality [majr] OR confidentiality [ti] OR dehumanization [mh] OR directed tissue
donation OR (disabled persons [mh:noexp] AND disease transmission, horizontal) OR disclosure
[majr:noexp] OR  (drug industry [majr:noexp] AND (health personnel [majr:noexp] OR faculty,
medical OR faculty, nursing OR medical staff [mh] OR nursing staff [mh] OR nurses
[mh:noexp] OR nurse administrators [mh] OR physicians [mh] OR physician's role OR health
occupations [mh:noexp])) OR duty to recontact OR eugenics OR fraud [majr] OR scientific
integrity review OR freedom [majr] OR (gene therapy [majr] AND government agencies) OR
genetic discrimination [ti] OR genetic privacy OR (genetic screening [majr] AND (attitude
[majr] OR discrimination [ti] OR health insurance [majr] OR life insurance [majr] OR public
opinion [majr] OR mandatory reporting)) OR (gift giving AND (industry [majr] OR
interprofessional relations [majr] OR professional-patient relations [majr])) OR health care
rationing [majr] OR holocaust [mh] OR human experimentation [mh] OR ((health care
disparities OR healthcare disparities) AND prejudice) OR human experimentation [ti] OR
(human experimentation AND (attitude OR public opinion OR standards [sh])) OR human rights
[majr:noexp] OR (human rights abuses AND (biological warfare OR biomedical research OR
health facilities [majr] OR prisoners [majr] OR professional role OR public health [mh:noexp]
OR terrorism [mh])) OR informed consent [majr] OR informed consent [ti] OR ((informed
consent [mh] OR consent[ti]) AND (AIDS serodiagnosis [majr] OR research [majr] OR clinical
trials as topic [majr])) OR consent forms [ti] OR parental consent [mh] OR (insurance,
psychiatric [majr] AND parity [ti] AND (accessibility OR jurisprudence)) OR involuntary
sterilization OR legal guardians [majr] OR (life support care [majr] AND (brain death OR
decision making OR patient participation [mh] OR pregnancy [mh] OR pregnant women OR
palliative care [mh] OR social values [mh] OR terminal care [majr] OR terminally ill [majr]))
OR mandatory programs [majr:noexp] OR (mandatory reporting [majr] AND (AIDS
serodiagnosis OR HIV infections OR communicable diseases OR (domestic violence
[majr:noexp] AND professional role [majr]) OR medical errors [majr:noexp])) OR mandatory
testing [majr] OR medical futility OR (mental competency [majr] AND (patient OR patient rights
[mh:noexp] OR informed consent OR treatment refusal)) OR (national socialism AND victims)
OR (national socialism [majr] AND (medical faculty OR medical specialties OR surgical
specialties [majr] OR disabled persons OR nurses OR physicians OR professional role [majr] OR
pernkopf)) OR oocyte donation/px [majr] OR parental consent [ti] OR parental notification OR
paternalism OR patient self determination act OR patient rights [mh:noexp] OR ((patient [ti] OR
patients [ti]) AND rights [ti]) OR personhood [ti] OR (prejudice AND (diagnosis OR therapy)
AND (age factors [majr] OR disabled persons [majr] OR ethnic groups [majr] OR minority
groups [majr] OR sex factors [majr])) OR (prejudice [majr] AND (diagnosis OR therapy) AND
(age factors [mh] OR disabled persons [mh] OR ethnic groups [mh] OR minority groups [mh]
OR sex factors [mh])) OR (prejudice [majr] AND research [majr] AND (ethnic groups [mh] OR
minority groups [mh])) OR ((prejudice OR insurance selection bias) AND (aids serodiagnosis
[majr] OR communicable diseases OR genetic screening [majr] OR hiv seropositivity [majr]))
OR (( prejudice [majr] OR insurance selection bias) AND (aids [majr] OR disabled persons
[majr:noexp] OR hiv infections [majr:noexp] OR mass screening [majr:noexp] OR mentally
disabled persons)) OR ((patents as topic [majr] OR intellectual property [majr:noexp]) AND
(animals, genetically modified OR biomedical research [majr] OR biomedical technology [majr]
OR human body OR organisms, genetically modified [mh:noexp])) OR ((patents OR patents as
topic) AND human genome project) OR presumed consent OR (proxy [mh] AND decision
making) OR (quarantine [majr] NOT veterinary NOT animals [mh:noexp]) OR refusal to treat
OR assisted suicide OR resuscitation orders OR right to die OR treatment refusal [majr] OR
reproductive rights  OR refusal to participate [majr] OR social values [majr] OR truth disclosure
[majr] OR value of life  [mh] OR whistleblowing OR wrongful life [majr] OR (sterilization,
reproductive [mh:noexp] AND (mental retardation OR disabled persons)) OR surrogate mothers
[mh] OR tissue and organ procurement/ec [majr] OR ((tissue and organ procurement [majr] OR
tissue donors [majr:noexp] OR living donors [majr]) AND (attitude [majr] OR commerce
[majr:noexp] OR decision making [majr:noexp] OR gift giving OR informed consent [mh] OR
consent [ti] OR motivation [majr:noexp] OR public opinion)) OR (blood donors [majr] AND
(altruism [mh] OR commerce [majr:noexp] OR decision making [majr:noexp] OR gift giving OR
motivation [majr:noexp] OR public opinion)) OR ((torture [mh] OR (war [majr] AND (politics
OR war crimes))) AND (health personnel [mh] OR physician's role OR nurse's role OR health
occupations [majr:noexp])) OR (terrorism [majr] AND (research [majr] OR civil rights
[mh:noexp] OR coercion OR freedom [mh] OR mandatory programs [mh:noexp] OR voluntary
programs [majr])) OR united states office of research integrity OR ((buddhism OR christianity
OR confucianism OR hinduism OR islam OR judaism OR religion [mh:noexp] OR religion and
medicine [mh] OR theology [mh] OR altruism [mh] OR philosophy [mh:noexp] OR philosophy,
dental [mh:noexp] OR philosophy, medical [mh:noexp] OR philosophy, nursing [mh:noexp] OR
government regulation OR jurisprudence [mh:noexp] OR legislation as topic [mh] OR health
policy [mh:noexp] OR organizational policy [mh] OR policy making [mh] OR public policy
[mh:noexp] OR politics [mh:noexp] OR guidelines as topic [mh:noexp] OR guideline [pt] OR
legal cases [pt] OR legislation [pt] OR lj [sh]) AND humans AND (abortion, induced
[majr:noexp] OR abortion, legal [majr] OR abortion, therapeutic [majr] OR cloning, organism
OR embryo research [mh] OR human genome project [mh] OR preimplantation diagnosis [mh]
OR reproductive techniques [majr:noexp] OR reproductive techniques, assisted [majr] OR sex
determination analysis OR sex preselection [mh])) OR ((buddhism OR christianity OR
confucianism OR hinduism OR islam OR judaism OR religion [mh:noexp] OR religion and
medicine [mh] OR theology [mh] OR altruism [mh] OR philosophy [mh:noexp] OR philosophy,
dental [mh:noexp] OR philosophy, medical [mh:noexp] OR philosophy, nursing [mh:noexp] OR
government regulation OR jurisprudence [mh:noexp] OR legislation as topic [mh] OR health
policy [mh:noexp] OR organizational policy [mh] OR policy making [mh] OR public policy
[mh:noexp] OR politics [mh:noexp] OR guidelines as topic [mh] OR guideline [pt] OR legal
cases [pt] OR legislation [pt] OR lj [sh]) AND humans AND (brain death [majr] OR embryo
transfer [majr] OR gene therapy [majr] OR human experimentation)) OR ((buddhism OR
christianity OR confucianism OR hinduism OR islam OR judaism OR religion [mh:noexp] OR
religion and medicine [mh] OR theology [mh] OR altruism [mh] OR philosophy [mh:noexp] OR
philosophy, dental [mh:noexp] OR philosophy, medical [mh:noexp] OR philosophy, nursing
[mh:noexp] OR government regulation OR jurisprudence [mh:noexp] OR legislation as topic
[mh] OR health policy [mh:noexp] OR organizational policy [mh] OR policy making [mh] OR
public policy [mh:noexp] OR politics [mh:noexp] OR guidelines as topic [mh:noexp] OR legal
cases [pt] OR legislation [pt] OR lj [sh]) AND humans AND (advance care planning [majr] OR
cesarean section [mh] OR clinical trials data monitoring committees OR contact tracing [mh] OR
genetic counseling [majr] OR genetic screening [majr] OR genetic research [majr:noexp] OR
genetics, medical [majr:noexp] OR intensive care units, neonatal [mh] OR life support care
[majr] OR tissue donors [majr:noexp] OR living donors [majr] OR tissue and organ procurement
[majr] OR (patents as topic [majr] AND (base sequence [majr] OR cell line [majr] OR chimera
[majr] OR (developing countries [mh] AND health services accessibility [mh]) OR DNA [majr]
OR genes [majr] OR genome, human [majr] OR life [ti])) OR patient transfer [majr] OR prenatal
diagnosis [majr]  OR refusal to participate [mh] OR stem cells [majr] OR terminally ill [majr]
OR transplantation [majr])) OR ((buddhism OR christianity OR confucianism OR hinduism OR
islam OR judaism OR religion [mh:noexp] OR religion and medicine [mh] OR theology [mh]
OR altruism [mh] OR philosophy [mh:noexp] OR philosophy, dental [mh:noexp] OR
philosophy, medical [mh:noexp] OR philosophy, nursing [mh:noexp]) AND professional-patient
relations [majr]) OR bioethics [ta] OR bmc med ethics [ta] OR christ bioeth [ta] OR dev world
bioeth [ta] OR health care anal [ta] OR health matrix [ta] OR hec forum [ta] OR issues law med
[ta] OR j law med ethics [ta] OR jonas healthc law ethics regul [ta] OR monash bioeth rev [ta]
OR nurs ethics [ta]


                                                            

Last reviewed: 29 January 2008
Last updated: 25 February 2008
First published: 05 October 2001
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