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Cindy Towns, Senior Lecturer, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago

Mixed-gender hospital rooms are on the rise in New Zealand, but the practice is unsafe and unethical

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Mixed-gender rooms are increasingly common in New Zealand’s hospitals, based on evidence from hospital complaints and a large Wellington study.

But our new research demonstrates that placing men and women in the same hospital room is unsafe and unethical.

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