Checklists for assessing ethical aspects of health technologies and services

Bjørn Hofmann

doi:10.1071/HC24092

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Checklists for assessing ethical aspects of health technologies and services

Bjørn Hofmann

¹ ² ^*

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¹ Centre of Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, PO Box 1130, Blindern, N-0318 Oslo, Norway.

² Institute for the health sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjovik, Norway.

^* Correspondence to: b.m.hofmann@medisin.uio.no

Journal of Primary Health Care https://doi.org/10.1071/HC24092

Submitted: 29 June 2024 Accepted: 2 July 2024 Published: 16 July 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

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