Confidentiality
- Limitations to shared secrets - 2013
- Confidentiality: specific difficulties in the management of HUG employees as patients - 2012
Advance directives
- Refusal of food - 2012
- Applications for advance directives in psychiatry and refusal of psychotropic treatment in the event of psychiatric decompensation - 2009
- End of life care for children - 2009
- Monitoring information on advance directives issued by the patient during their inpatient and outpatient care trajectory? 2006
- Decision not to resuscitate and "not to be resuscitated" orders (NTBR)
- APPROACH WITH AN NTBR ORDER - no CPR - 2001 - Attitude towards a patient in a persistent vegetative state - 1998
Justice and costs
- Clinical care of asylum seeking patients faced with a non-consideration decision and attributed to a canton other than Geneva - 2008
- Precarious Patients Fund (PPF), analysis of the ethical criteria - 2005
- Possibility of refusal of emergency care to asylum seekers who have been rejected or faced with a non-consideration decision (refugees in Switzerland for whom the competent authority "does not come into matter") - 2005
- Allocation of expensive drugs and treatments - 2003
- Resource allocation to uninsured persons in Switzerland and who are residing in or visiting Switzerland - 2003
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Measures
- Refusal of food - 2012
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a persistent vegetative state - 2011
- Genetic testing and announcement of results of a genetic test - 2010
- Blood transfusion refusal by members of the Association of Jehovah's Witnesses / updated 2004
- Videoscopic recording of laparoscopic operations performed on patients - 2000
Care Process
- Covid-19 pandemic: Relatives' place in decisions to transfer patients from HUG to other intensive care units in Switzerland - 2020 (FR)
- Physical measures restricting freedom of movement - 2014
- Inclusion of patients in the prospective evaluation of care quality - 2012
- Refusal of Food - 2012
- Role of relatives in treatment decisions - 2012
- Conscientious objection in clinical practice - 2012
- Right for foreign language patients to benefit from an interpreter at HUG - 2002
- Videoscopic recording of laparoscopic operations performed on patients - 2000
- Attitude towards a patient in a persistent vegetative state - 1998
Safety of Patients and Caregivers
- Electronic monitoring in wandering - 2009
- Possible exceptions to the smoking ban for staff and/or patients and their visitors at HUG - 2006
- Attitude vis-à-vis professionals for potentially infectious patients (HIV, HBV or C positive) - 2005
- Standard precautions within HUG (VigiGerm)- 2002
- Disclosure or not to patients of a possible prior contamination, potentially incurred during eye surgery - 2001
- Measures to be taken in case of contamination with potentially infectious body fluids - 1995
Transplantation
- Organ donation with a stopped heart - 2014
- Authorization for sampling fetal placental blood for storage in a commercial bank - 2007
- Non-heart-beating organ donors - 2004
- Inter vivos Organ donation - 2004
- Umbilical cord cell database - Genevacord - 2002
- Liver transplantation in children from a related living donor - 1995
For questions / comments on these opinions:
conseil.ethique@hcuge.ch
