| Goals of Clinical Ethics Support: Perceptions of Dutch Healthcare Institutions. | |
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PMID: 21912993 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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In previous literature, ethicists mention several goals of Clinical Ethics Support (CES). It is unknown what key persons in healthcare institutions see as main--and sub-goals of CES. This article presents the goals of CES as perceived by board members and members of ethics support staff. This is part of a Dutch national research using a mixed methods design with questionnaires, focus groups and interviews. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed and combined in an iterative process. Four main clusters of goals were found: 1) encouraging an ethical climate, 2) fostering an accountable and transparent organization, 3) developing professionalism and a final goal, overarching the previous three, 4) good care. Most important sub-goals of CES were: attention for ethical issues, raising awareness of ethical issues, fostering ethical reflection and supporting employees. The article ends with a discussion on the desirability to further operationalize the general goal of good care, the context-boundedness of our findings and the need to relate goals of CES to the features of organizational cultures to further improve the integration of CES in healthcare institutions. |
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L Dauwerse; T A Abma; B Molewijk; G Widdershoven |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-9-13 |
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Title: Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy Volume: - ISSN: 1573-3394 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Sep |
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Created Date: 2011-9-13 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9432537 Medline TA: Health Care Anal Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Medical Humanities, The EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Centre, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, l.dauwerse@vumc.nl. |
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