RT Article
T1 BARRIERS AND CHALLENGES IN CLINICAL ETHICS CONSULTATIONS: THE EXPERIENCES OF NINE CLINICAL ETHICS COMMITTEES
JF Bioethics
VO 23
IS 8
SP 460
OP 469
A1 Pedersen, Reidar
A1 Akre, Victoria
A1 Førde, Reidun
A2 Akre, Victoria
A2 Førde, Reidun
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1781882002
AB Clinical ethics committees have recently been established in nearly all Norwegian hospital trusts. One important task for these committees is clinical ethics consultations. This qualitative study explores significant barriers confronting the ethics committees in providing such consultation services. The interviews with the committees indicate that there is a substantial need for clinical ethics support services and, in general, the committee members expressed a great deal of enthusiasm for the committee work. They also reported, however, that tendencies to evade moral disagreement, conflict, and ‘outsiders’ are common in the hospitals. Sometimes even the committees comply with some of these tendencies. The committees agree that there is a need to improve their routines and procedures, clarify the committees' profile and field of responsibility, to make the committees well-known, to secure adequate operating conditions, and to develop organizational integration and support. Various strategies to meet these challenges on a local, regional or national level are also explored in this paper.
K1 Norway
K1 Conflict
K1 Hospitals
K1 Ethics
K1 Qualitative Research
K1 Ethics Consultation
K1 clinical ethics committees
DO 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00664.x