Has the new code of ethics for physiotherapists incorporated bioethical trends?

Abstract Advances in health technology incorporate bioethical discussions in texts that address professional care. Would the new code of ethics for physiotherapists have incorporated such discussions? Given the issue, we aimed to verify the ratio of deontological and bioethical approaches in the new code of ethics when compared to the old one, investigating relationships between professional and client autonomies in healthcare. Content analysis methods were applied to written documents in order to verify in what proportion deontological and bioethical approaches are present in the new code. The bioethical approaches compose the large part of the content in this new code (53%) specially related to the justice category which represents 21,9% of the total textual units found. Changes in the new document reveal bioethical influences in the conception of the new code, which still did not modify the relationship between professional and client autonomies, revealing the need for further discussions.

摘要
医疗技术的进步会在涉及专业照护的文本中纳入生命伦理（bioethical）相关讨论。物理治疗师新版伦理守则是否纳入了此类讨论？针对该问题，本研究旨在对比新版与旧版物理治疗师伦理守则，验证其中道义论（deontological）与生命伦理研究路径的占比，并探讨医疗照护场景中从业者与服务对象自主权之间的关系。本研究采用内容分析法对书面文档展开分析，以验证新版守则内道义论与生命伦理研究路径的占比情况。结果显示，新版守则的内容主体为生命伦理相关研究路径，占比达53%，其中尤以正义（justice）范畴相关内容占比最高，达总文本单元的21.9%。新版守则的修订细节体现出生命伦理理念对其制定的影响，但该守则仍未调整从业者与服务对象自主权之间的关系，这表明相关议题仍需进一步展开探讨。