Background As hospitals have grown more complex, the ethical concerns they confront have
grown correspondingly complicated. Many hospitals have consequently developed health …

The movement advocating the formal certification of clinical ethics consultants may result in
major changes to the field of clinical ethics consultation by creating a new standard of care …

Health care ethics committees (HCECs), bodies that mediate ethical disputes and dilemmas
in patient care settings, began in the 1960s, assumed a prominent organizational role by the …

Although bioethics consultation has always drawn the ire of critics, its extension into areas
such as paid consultation with private industry has raised new concerns. Critics of consulting …

“Ethics makes us more critical of what we are doing—to bring us back daily to thinking about
what it is to be a good doctor.” 1 (p38) Physicians are finding it difficult to apply ethical …

Objectives: Hospital ethics committees increasingly affect medical care worldwide, yet there
has been little evaluation of these bodies. Israel has the distinction of having ethics …

Background: Demand for organisational ethics capacity is growing in health organisations,
particularly among managers. The role of clinical ethicists in, and perspective on …

Patients, providers, and policy leaders need a new moral compass to guide them in the
turbulent US health care system. Task forces have proposed excellent ethical codes, but …

We will describe an individual consultant model, in which an ethics consultant works with the
healthcare team to reach an acceptable outcome. In hospitals where consultation is done by …

Health care delivery in many countries has expanded over the past 150 years from a largely
social service delivered by individual practitioners to an intricate network of services …