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Clinical ethics committees: a worldwide development [PDF]
Clinical ethics committees (CECs) are well established in North America where they are known as hospital or health care ethics committees. Similar groups and other kinds of clinical ethics support are now developing in Europe. This supplement to the Journal of Medical Ethics provides an overview of the issues arising from the provision of clinical ...
A, Slowther, T, Hope, R, Ashcroft
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Core competencies for clinical ethics committees [PDF]
Clinical ethics committees (CECs) are increasing in number in the UK and have mostly developed in response to local interest, as opposed to being mandated as in the USA. However, there is no regulatory framework for UK CECs with no defined educational requirements or specification of core competencies for their members.
Victor, Larcher +2 more
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Evolution of ethics in clinical research and ethics committee
Ethics are the moral values of human behavior and the principles which govern these values. The situation becomes challenging for a doctor when he assumes the role of researcher.
Nilay Kanti Das, Amrita Sil
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Clinical governance and research ethics as barriers to UK low-risk population-based health research? [PDF]
Background Since the Helsinki Declaration was introduced in 1964 as a code of practice for clinical research, it has generally been agreed that research governance is also needed in the field of public health and health promotion research.
Douglas Flora +2 more
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Clinical ethics committees [PDF]
This review describes the clinical ethics committees in Denmark. The clinical ethics committee is an interdisciplinary committee at a hospital intended to analyse ethically challenging situations and burdensome choices in patient care. The work in Danish KEKs takes place without formal organisation, in contrast to several other countries, where ...
Rosenberg, Raben +1 more
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Evolution of hospital clinical ethics committees in Canada
To investigate the current status of hospital clinical ethics committees (CEC) and how they have evolved in Canada over the past 20 years, this paper presents an overview of the findings from a 2008 survey and compares these findings with two previous Canadian surveys conducted in 1989 and 1984.
Alice, Gaudine +3 more
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Clinical ethics committee [PDF]
An informal clinical ethics committee was set up to advise on ethical problems in prenatal diagnosis in Leeds. It was used twice in six months but was not called on again in the subsequent year, and we describe this experience. In North America similar committees are often used to advise on clinical moral dilemmas, and we review the published evidence ...
J G, Thornton, R J, Lilford
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Background Although the importance of clinical ethics in contemporary clinical environments is established, development of formal clinical ethics services in the Australia health system has, to date, been ad hoc. This study was designed to systematically
Elizabeth Hoon +7 more
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Background Amidst expanding roles in education and policy making, questions have been raised about the ability of Clinical Ethics Committees (CEC) s to carry out effective ethics consultations (CECons).
Nicholas Yue Shuen Yoon +11 more
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Development of clinical ethics committees [PDF]
Support for dealing with ethical issues in clinical practice should be an integral part of patient care Clinical practice raises a wide variety of ethical issues that can be difficult for individual doctors to resolve. Some NHS trusts have established clinical ethics committees to provide ethical support.
Anne, Slowther +3 more
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