| Barriers and challenges in clinical ethics consultations: the experiences of nine clinical ethics committees. | |
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PMID: 18549426 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Clinical ethics committees have recently been established in nearly all Norwegian hospital trusts. One important task for these committees is clinical ethics consultations. This qualitative study explores significant barriers confronting the ethics committees in providing such consultation services. The interviews with the committees indicate that there is a substantial need for clinical ethics support services and, in general, the committee members expressed a great deal of enthusiasm for the committee work. They also reported, however, that tendencies to evade moral disagreement, conflict, and 'outsiders' are common in the hospitals. Sometimes even the committees comply with some of these tendencies. The committees agree that there is a need to improve their routines and procedures, clarify the committees' profile and field of responsibility, to make the committees well-known, to secure adequate operating conditions, and to develop organizational integration and support. Various strategies to meet these challenges on a local, regional or national level are also explored in this paper. |
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Authors:
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Reidar Pedersen; Victoria Akre; Reidun Førde |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2008-06-28 |
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Title: Bioethics Volume: 23 ISSN: 1467-8519 ISO Abbreviation: Bioethics Publication Date: 2009 Oct |
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Created Date: 2009-08-28 Completed Date: 2009-11-23 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8704792 Medline TA: Bioethics Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 460-9 Citation Subset: IM |
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Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, Oslo 0318, Norway. reidar.pedersen@medisin.uio.no |
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Conflict (Psychology) Data Collection Ethical Analysis Ethics Committees, Clinical* / standards, trends, utilization Ethics Consultation* / standards, trends, utilization Ethics, Clinical Hospital Administration / ethics* Hospitals / ethics Humans Norway Organizational Culture Practice Guidelines as Topic Qualitative Research |
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