Guidance for healthcare ethics committees

Guidance for healthcare ethics committees

Every accredited American hospital is required to have a mechanism for handling ethical concerns; most hospitals satisfy this requirement by constituting an institutional healthcare ethics committee (HEC), a pattern which is repeated in most western countries. This text provides definitive, comprehe...

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Other Authors: Hester, D. Micah (Editor), Schonfeld, Toby (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2012
Subjects:
Ethics Committees, Clinical
Hospital Administration > ethics
Ethics, Clinical
Delivery of Health Care > ethics
Practice Guidelines as Topic
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to healthcare ethics committees / D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld
  • Brief introduction to ethics and ethical theory / D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld
  • Ethics committees and the law / Stephen Latham
  • Cultural and religious issues in healthcare / Alissa Hurwitz Swota
  • Mission, vision, goals : defining the parameters of ethics consultation / Martin L. Smith
  • Ethics consultation process / Jeffrey Spike
  • Informed consent, shared decision-making, and the ethics committee / Randall Horton and Howard Brody
  • Decision-making capacity / Arthur R. Derse
  • Family dynamics and surrogate decision-making / Lisa Soleymani Lehmann
  • Confidentiality / Toby Schonfeld
  • Advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making / Nancy M. P. King and John C. Moskop
  • Medical futility / Taddeus Mason Pope
  • Issues in reproduction / Anne Drapkin Lyerly
  • Ethical issues in neonatology / John D. Lantos
  • Ethical issues in pediatrics / D. Micah Hester
  • Ethics committees and distributive justice / Nancy S. Jecker
  • Developing effective ethics policy / Anne Lederman Flamm
  • Implementing policy to the wider community / Mary Faith Marshall and Joan Liaschenko
  • Ethics in and for the organization / Mary V. Rorty
  • The healthcare ethics committee as educator / Kathy Kinlaw
  • Education as prevention / Kayhan Parsi
  • Understanding ethics pedagogy / Felicia Cohn.

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