Clinical ethics committees: a worldwide development
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Clinical ethics committees: a worldwide development.
Clinical ethics committees (CECs) are well established in North America where they are known as hospital or health care ethics committees. Similar groups and other kinds of clinical ethics support are now developing in Europe. This supplement to the Journal of Medical Ethics provides an overview of the issues arising from the provision of clinical ethics support services, and clinical ethics co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.27.suppl_1.i1