Understanding the practice of ethics consultation: Results of an ethnographic multi-site study

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 136-149

  Kelly, Susan E ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFLICT; CONSENSUS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHICIST; ETHICS; GROUP PROCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

AGED; COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP; CONSENSUS; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHICISTS; ETHICS COMMITTEES; ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; ETHICS CONSULTATION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GROUP PROCESSES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; NEGOTIATING; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOCIAL VALUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031157713     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/jce199708203     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. See e.g., J. Fletcher, N. Quist, and A. Jonsen, ed., Ethics Consultation in Health Care (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Health Administration Press, 1989), 1-15;
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9. Although a precise definition of the goals of ethics consultation has yet to be formulated, on 21-23 September 1995 Ellen Fox and James Tulsky organized the Evaluation of Case Consultation in Clinical Ethics Conference in Chicago. Objectives of the conference included the development of specific goals of ethics consultations, identification of outcome measures, and the development of research strategies to assess case consultation. Panels from the conference published a special section of articles in The Journal of Clinical Ethics 7, no. 2 (Summer 1996).
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15. V. Michel, "Ethics Committee Procedure: Due Process or Good Process?" Ethical Currents 30 (1992): 6-7;
16. S. Rubin and L. Zoloth-Dorfman, "First-Person Plural: Community and Method in Ethics Consultation," The Journal of Clinical Ethics 5, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 49-54.