Prompted by a recommendation of the two Christian hospital associations in Germany, the Neu-Mariahilf Hospital in Göttingen set up a health ethics committee in autumn 1998. It is the committee's task to give support to staff members, patients and their relatives in individual cases where ethical dilemmas arise. The following article describes the committee's work by means of three cases.

INTRODUCTION Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) poses a serious financial challenge to health systems and patients. The current treatment for patients with MDR-TB takes up to 24 months to complete. Evidence for a shorter regimen which differs from the standard WHO recommended MDR-TB regimen and typically lasts between 9 and 12 months has been reported from Bangladesh. This evaluation aim...

author (which had been accepted but not yet published) that also seemed to be plagiarised. However, the author’s hospital did not respond. In another of the four cases (09-11), an editor had concerns about the ethics of a trial of a homoeopathic treatment for HIV/AIDS. The editor was concerned that patients may have been denied effective antiretroviral treatment and wanted clarification about h...

INTRODUCTION The application of organizational ethics in hospitals is one of the novel ways to improve medical ethics. Nowadays achieving efficient and sufficient ethical hospital indicators seems to be inevitable. In this connection, the present study aims to determine the best indicators in hospital accreditation. METHODS 69 indicators in 11 fields to evaluate hospital ethics were achieved ...

Methods The patients underwent liver transplantation recepients between May 2014 to Jan 2015 were analysed. The data was collected from patient records after ethics committee approval. The data captured were Age,sex, ICU and hospital length of stay, bilirubin, albumin, INR, creatinine, intubation days, readmission,cold ischemia, warm ischemia, portal vein thrombosis, SGOT, SGPT, Vasopressors us...

OBJECTIVES To study knowledge and attitudes of hospital ethics committee members at the first workshop for ethics committees in Croatia. DESIGN Before/after cross-sectional study using a self administered questionnaire. SETTING Educational workshop for members of hospital ethics committees, Zagreb, 2003. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS Knowledge and attitudes of participants before and after th...

INTRODUCTION Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a life-threatening chronic disease characterised by periodic exacerbations and recurrent hospitalisations. In the management of CHF, patient compliance with evidence-based clinical guidelines is essential, but remains difficult practically. The objective of this study is to examine whether an Innovative Telemonitoring Enhanced Care Programme for CHF (...

Why an Ethics Program?; How to Organize Ethics as a Program; Principles of Ethics; Strategies for Fostering an Ethical Organization; Adopt the Goal of Implementing an Ethics Program; Establish an Ethics Committee and Assign Operational Responsibility to an Ethics Officer; Adopt a Code of Ethics; Make the Ethics Program Visible; Establish a Reporting Mechanism; Conduct an Ethical Analysis; Consi...

INTRODUCTION One in six children who have been admitted to hospital with an injury develop persistent stress symptoms that put their development at risk. Parents play a crucial role in children's psychological recovery, however, it is unknown how specific parenting behaviours can help or hinder. We aim to describe the nature and quantity of parent-child communication after a child has been inju...