TY - JOUR ID - 120217 TI - Ethical Issues in COVID-19 Pandemic JO - Hospital Practices and Research JA - HPR LA - en SN - 2476-390X AU - Saberi Isfeedvajani, Mohsen AU - Fares, Foroozan AU - Ismaili Shahroudi Moqaddam, Zahra AD - Medicine, Quran and Hadith Research Center & Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 126 EP - 133 KW - COVID-19 KW - ethics KW - Health Inequity KW - triage KW - Resource Allocation KW - Vaccines DO - 10.34172/hpr.2020.25 N2 - The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 disease (COVID-19) is the most current life-threating disease that affect health and economic sectors in the world. This pandemic raises weighty and urgent ethical issues that affected patients, health care provider and health care systems. Based on medical ethics textbooks, there are four fundamental ethical principles: The principle of respect for autonomy, the principle of beneficence, the principle of non-maleficence, and the principle of justice. Medical ethics scientists have well explained these principles before with full accuracy and detail. In this review article, we discussed the ethical issues raised during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health inequity and inequality, health care rationing/triage, contact tracing technologies and data privacy, movement restriction and exit strategies, and finally COVID-19 research ethics especially clinical trials and vaccine studies could cause ethical problems during Covid-19 pandemic. In this review article, we discuss about these issues and provide some ethical solutions to these issues UR - https://www.jhpr.ir/article_120217.html L1 - https://www.jhpr.ir/article_120217_643d35db8f3d4e0d7b970f5f72b60318.pdf ER -