The bioethics movement and hospital ethics committees.

A national study of ethics committees.

Conceived as a solution to clinical dilemmas, and now required by organizations for hospital accreditation, ethics committees have been subject only to small-scale studies. The wide use of ethics committees and the diverse roles they have played compel study. In 1999 the University of Pennsylvania Ethics Committee Research Group (ECRG) completed the first national survey of the presence, compos...

فلسفه وجودی کمیته‌های اخلاق بیمارستانی

In order to improve service quality, there are various committees in hospitals including ethics committees, which may be among the most important and necessary establishments within the health care system. Hospital ethics committees are designed to ensure proper clinical decision-making and are responsible for monitoring the ethical provision of services in hospitals. They also aim to assist pa...

Bioethics activities in rural hospitals.

Paradigms for clinical ethics consultation practice.

Clinical bioethics is big business. There are now hundreds of people who "do" bioethics in community and university hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation and home care settings, and some (though quite a few less) who play the role of clinical ethics consultant to transplant teams, managed care companies, and genetic testing firms. Still, there is as much speculation about what clinically act...

مدیریت اجرایی اخلاق در پژوهش های علوم پزشکی: نتایج یک کارگاه

Backgrounds: Nowadays one of the major problems in research ethics, especially in medical researches, is how to make bioethics codes practical and how to oblige researchers to perform them. In this essay, we have tried to suggest all detailed activities of different management sides which have a role in different phases of performing a research project, to make codes more practical. Materials ...