For Experts Only?: Access to Hospital Ethics Committees

How closely involved with hospital ethics committees should patients and their families become? Should they routinely have access to committees, or be empowered to initiate consultations? To what extent should they be informed of the content or outcome of committee deliberations? Seeing ethics commi...

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VerfasserInnen: Agich, George J. (Verfasst von) ; Youngner, Stuart J. (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Veröffentlicht: 1991
In: The Hastings Center report
Jahr: 1991, Band: 21, Heft: 5, Seiten: 17-24
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Zusammenfassung:How closely involved with hospital ethics committees should patients and their families become? Should they routinely have access to committees, or be empowered to initiate consultations? To what extent should they be informed of the content or outcome of committee deliberations? Seeing ethics committees as the locus of competing responsibilities allows us to respond to the questions posed by a patient rights model and to acknowledge more fully the complex moral dynamics of clinical medicine.
ISSN:1552-146X
Enthält:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3562886