Developing Efective Ethics Policy  

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Flamm, Anne Lederman

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees, page 130-138.
Topik: Foundation of HECs’ Role; Goal of HECs’ Policy Involvement; Policy-Making Targets
Fulltext: Developing Efective Ethics Policy.pdf (162.61KB)

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Since the latter decades of the twentieth century, policy development has been considered one of the traditional functions of HECs (Post et al., 2007; Hester, 2008). A 2001 survey of hospitals in the United States indicated that 100 percent of ethics committees had somerole in institutional policy, with HECs reporting that they spent about 23% of their time formulating or evaluating policies (McGee et al., 2001). HECs commonly develop policy on ethical issues arising in patient care. he Joint Com- mission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requires hospitals to have written policies addressing topics typically characterized as clinical ethical issues, including informed consent and surrogate decision-making, advance directives, forgoing or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, and withholding resuscitative services, 1 though it does not mandate ethics committee review. hese substantive topics are fundamental, even formative, to the identity and function of HECs; the 1976 judicial opinion in In re Quinlan calling for ethics committee consultation to address questions of decision-making at the end of life is oten credited with spurring their establishment and growth. he expertise of health-related professionals comprising HECs’ traditional membership, e.g., physicians, nurses, and clergy, also supports the focus of HEC policy development eforts in the arena of clinical patient care.

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