Background: Patients today interact with physicians, physician groups, and health plans,
each of which may follow distinct ethical guidelines. Method: We systematically compared …

Medical ethics must stop being case oriented and become institutionally oriented. We
bioethicists must stop approaching problems from a philosophical perspective and adopt a …

The modern practice of medicine raises a plethora of complex issues—medical, ethical and
legal. Doctors and other healthcare professionals increasingly must try to resolve these and …

As part of a project to examine health care ethics consultation in Canada, we surveyed
individuals who were considered by themselves or others to play a significant role in health …

This chapter provides a functional description of the health care ethics consultant who is
active in the clinical setting. It outlines the requisite knowledge, abilities, and traits of …

Few ethics committees were in place when the New Jersey Supreme Court announced its
ruling on the Quinlan case in 1976. Today, the vast majority of hospitals have formed ethics …

The traditional trinity of hospital ethics committees comprise of an ethics consult service,
policy development, and education. Many of these activities take place behind closed doors …

Specialists in bioethics and health law from Dalhousie University are working with three
healthcare organizations (HCOs) to address challenges associated with ethics, law, and …

The day-to-day work of clinical ethics consultants and healthcare ethics committees can
easily become overly routine. Too much routine, however, comes with a risk that morally …

This issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics is devoted to the theme of health care ethics
consultation in the United States, whether such consultation is performed individually or as …