Successes and failures of hospital ethics committees: A national survey of ethics committee chairs

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-93

  McGee, Glenn ^a   Spanogle, Joshua P ^b   Caplan, Arthur L ^a   Penny, Dina ^c   Asch, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ETHICS; ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; JOINT COMMISSION ON ACCREDITATION OF HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SAMPLING STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036971468     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180102001147     Document Type: Review

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