The role of the principle of double effect in ethics education at US medical schools and its potential impact on pain management at the end of life

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Double Effect Principle 100%
• Medical Schools 54%
• Ethics 53%
• Pain Management 53%
• Opioid Analgesics 46%
• Education 33%
• Respiratory Insufficiency 33%
• Terminally Ill 22%
• Medical Ethics 12%
• Terminal Care 10%
• Pain 10%
• Research Ethics Committees 9%
• Drive 9%
• Therapeutics 1%

Arts & Humanities

• Principle of Double Effect 80%
• End of Life 63%
• Pain 61%
• Medical School 56%
• Educators 49%
• Education 31%
• Institutional Review Board 17%
• End of Life Care 14%
• Causes 12%
• Clinicians 10%
• Minorities 9%
• Reference 6%

Social Sciences

• pain 50%
• moral philosophy 38%
• educator 26%
• management 25%
• education 16%
• death 12%
• institutional review 10%
• cause 10%
• life situation 9%
• clinician 7%
• electronics 6%
• minority 5%
• evidence 3%