A dramatic approach to healthcare ethics committee education

HEC Forum ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 329-354
Author(s):  
Jay A. Jacobson ◽  
Philip J. Foubert
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Healthcare Ethics ◽  
Healthcare Ethics Committee

The Role of Healthcare Ethics Committee Networks in Shaping Healthcare Policy and Practices

HEC Forum ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita J. Tarzian ◽  
Diane E. Hoffmann ◽  
Rose Mary Volbrecht ◽  
Judy L. Meyers
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Healthcare Policy ◽  
Healthcare Ethics ◽  
Healthcare Ethics Committee

Successes and Failures of Hospital Ethics Committees: A National Survey of Ethics Committee Chairs

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
GLENN McGEE ◽  
JOSHUA P. SPANOGLE ◽  
ARTHUR L. CAPLAN ◽  
DINA PENNY ◽  
DAVID A. ASCH
Keyword(s):  
National Survey ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Joint Commission ◽  
Healthcare Ethics ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Hospital Ethics Committees ◽  
Healthcare Ethics Committee ◽  
Hospital Ethics ◽  
Successes And Failures

In 1992, the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) passed a mandate that all its approved hospitals put in place a means for addressing ethical concerns.Although the particular process the hospital uses to address such concerns—ethics consultant, ethics forum, ethics committee—may vary, the hospital or healthcare ethics committee (HEC) is used most often. In a companion study to that reported here, we found that in 1998 over 90% of U.S. hospitals had ethics committees, compared to just 1% in 1983, and that many have some and a few have sweeping clinical powers in hospitals.

scholarly journals Getting Real: The Maryland Healthcare Ethics Committee Network’s COVID-19 Working Group Debriefs Lessons Learned

HEC Forum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norton Elson ◽  
Howard Gwon ◽  
Diane E. Hoffmann ◽  
Adam M. Kelmenson ◽  
Ahmed Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Healthcare Ethics ◽  
Healthcare Ethics Committee

scholarly journals Are Ethics Committee Members Competent to Consult?

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Hoffmann ◽  
Anita Tarzian ◽  
J. Anne O'Neil
Keyword(s):  
Group Process ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Healthcare Organization ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Healthcare Ethics ◽  
Ethics Program ◽  
Special Expertise

A significant amount of discussion in the bioethics community has been devoted to the question of whether individuals performing ethics consultations in healthcare institutions have any special expertise. In addition, articles in the lay press have questioned the “added value” that bioethicists bring to ethical dilemmas. Those at the forefront of the bioethics community have argued repeatedly that those doing ethics consults cannot simply be well-intentioned individuals, that some training in bioethics, group process, and facilitation is necessary to competently execute a consult. As one bioethicist commented:if you approach any endeavor as an amateur activity, you will get, in the end, an amateurish version of the activity. Without a sufficient commitment of personnel, time, support, and financial resources, a healthcare organization will get the ‘ethics’ program … it set out to create: an inept, unskilled, inefficient, and highly risky ‘program’ in healthcare ethics and bioethics.

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