Abstract

BENOZZI, Silvia Fabiana; WIGDOROVITZ DE WIKINSKI, Regina Luisa  and  FINK, Nilda Ester. Ética y laboratorio clínico: conceptos básicos. Acta bioquím. clín. latinoam. [online]. 2022, vol.56, n.4, pp.469-480. ISSN 0325-2957.

Biochemical professionals, and those who carry out their work in the clinical analysis laboratory, in performing their duties as individuals, professionals and health service providers, must carry out their tasks within a framework of compliance with ethical standards, such as it occurs in other areas related to health care. To successfully address the complex problems raised in this specific field and to study the natural (i.e.: appearance of the SARSCoV- 2 coronavirus), technological [i.e.: artificial intelligence (AI)] and social (i.e.: demographic shifts) factors that may have repercussions on human health and the biosphere as a whole, it is necessary that health professionprofeals and those who perform their duties in this environment, become aware of basic concepts on ethics applied to health. The objective of this article is to consider the ethical dilemmas that clinical laboratory professionals must face in their daily work. To this aim, we set out to address the national and international principles, documents and declarations on ethics applied to health, in particular, to the clinical analysis laboratory and secondly, to provide a theoretical framework based on the principles of Principalist Bioethics, to face the ethical problems that are generated in the different phases of the complete biochemical process (pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical).

Keywords : Clinical laboratory; Ethics; Dilemmas; Principles.

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