An eight-year follow-up national study of medical school and general hospital ethics committees in Japan

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Akabayashi, Akira ^a   Slingsby, Brian T ^a   Nagao, Noriko ^a   Kai, Ichiro ^a   Sato, Hajime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH SURVEY; JAPAN; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; TREATMENT REFUSAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHICS; GROUP STRUCTURE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL LIABILITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEER REVIEW; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WORKLOAD;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS CONSULTATION; GROUP STRUCTURE; GUIDELINES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 300 TO 499; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; LIABILITY, LEGAL; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PEER REVIEW; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; WORKLOAD;

EID: 34447651187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-8-8     Document Type: Article

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