The role of Clinical Ethics Committees

• Authors: Eleanor Updale
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Over the past 15 years or so, Clinical Ethics Committees (CECs) have been established in many healthcare settings in the UK. How do they work, who sits on them, and what do they discuss? How formal should they be? Should their decisions be binding on clinicians, or purely advisory? Should they offer their services to patients and their families too? Are they valuable additions to clinical support, or simply intellectual talking-shops for their members? Should other countries set up CECs as part of their own approach to Clinical Ethics?

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Diametros
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 22
• Pages: 116-123

Contributors

author

Eleanor Updale

• Great Ormond Street Hospital, London

References

• Draper et al. [2006-2007] – H. Draper, A. MacDiarmaid-Gordon, L. Strumidlo, B. Teuten, E. Updale, Virtual ethics committee, “Clin Ethics” (1, 2, 3, all issues) 2006-2007.
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Identifiers

DOI

10.13153/diam.22.2009.367