scholarly journals Hospital Ethics Committees in accredited hospitals in Poland—availability of information

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrycja Zurzycka ◽  
Grażyna Puto ◽  
Katarzyna Czyżowicz ◽  
Iwona Repka
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Hospital Ethics Committees ◽  
Hospital Ethics ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe role of Hospital Ethics Committees (HECs) is to support patients and their relatives as well as medical staff in solving ethical issues that arise in relation to the implementation of medical care. In Poland there are no clearly formulated legal regulations concerning the establishment and functioning of hospital ethics committees. Hospitals applying for accreditation are obliged to present solutions defining the way of solving ethical issues in a given institution, some of them appoint HECs for this purpose. The aim of this study was to analyze information concerning the functioning of hospital ethics committees in Poland on the basis of publicly available data published on the websites of accredited hospitals. Very few accredited hospitals (56) make public information about functioning in their ethics consulting facilities through hospital ethics committees. In most cases, the information provided on the functioning of HECs is general, both in terms of the committees’ functioning, type of cases under consideration and the composition of personnel.

scholarly journals The role of hospital ethics committees in emergency medicine practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-407
Author(s):  
Eileen F. Baker ◽  
Joel M. Geiderman ◽  
Chadd K. Kraus ◽  
Rebecca Goett
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Hospital Ethics Committees ◽  
Hospital Ethics

The Ethics Consultant and Ethics Committees, and their Acronyms: IRBs, HECs, RM, QA, UM, PROs, IPCs, and HREAPs

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Schiedermayer ◽  
John La Puma
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Hospital Ethics Committees ◽  
Research Protocols ◽  
Hospital Ethics

Much has been written about the role of hospital ethics committees. Ethics committees may have begun in Seattle in the early 1960s, but they were reified in. New Jersey by the Quinlan Court in the 1970s and thrived in the national bioethics movement of the 1980s.In this flurry of ethics activity, several new forms of ethics committees have evolved. New forms of ethics committees include patient care-oriented ethics committees (RM, QM, & QA). Many ethicists are familiar with mission-oriented ethics committees (IRBs & HECs). Such committees have taken on new roles, and Include PROs, IPCs, and HREAPs. In general, these committees are regulatory in nature and may often rely on rules and regulations to assess patient cases, research protocols, and health professional practices.

Main challenges in utilization of the consultations services of hospital ethics committees: a systematic review of the literature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahim Khodayari-Zarnaq ◽  
Mir Sajad Seyyed Moosavi ◽  
Alireza Hajizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
English Language ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Hospital Ethics Committees ◽  
Hospital Ethics

Abstract Background : To responding ethical issues in clinical practice, hospital ethics committees (HEC) provide the ethics consultation for healthcare professionals. There are numerous challenges in the consultations services of HEC that can impact healthcare professionals and patients, families in the health care setting. This review aimed to identifies main challenges in utilization the consultations services of HEC and proposed possible solutions.Methods : This systematic review was conducted through searching electronic databases including PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, ProQuest and Embase. Inclusion criteria included studies related to the purpose of the review, publish in English language, were published in a peer-reviewed journal, from 2000 to 2019 and clearly defined the design, method and results of study. Studies selection, quality assessments, data extraction and analysis were completed on all included studies by two researchers independently. Quality assessment was based on the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) checklist. Finally, thematic analysis method was used to analyses the data.Results : The search originally yielded 1204 articles and 6 of these included to evidence analyses. After analyses the included studies, challenges were categorized in 9 themes: (a) personal views and believes in healthcare professionals, (b) sense of fear in the healthcare professionals, (c) medical culture, (d) environmental factors, (e) managerial and structural factors, (f) characteristics of HEC members, (g) factors related to HEC, (h) problematic process for HEC consultations, and (i) weakness in knowledge about HEC. Accordingly, proposed solutions were organized according to five themes of reforms in the HEC executive processes, creating the appropriate communications, developing awareness about HEC, improving the competences of HEC members, and (e) supporting from HEC consultations.Conclusions : This review highlights that proposed solutions serve as instances of strategies that attempted to solve challenges related in utilization the consultations services of HEC by healthcare professionals.

Quality Control for Hospitals' Clinical Ethics Services: Proposed Standards

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cavin P. Leeman ◽  
John C. Fletcher ◽  
Edward M. Spencer ◽  
Sigrid Fry-Revere
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Clinical Ethics ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Hospital Ethics Committees ◽  
Hospital Ethics

Hospital ethics committees have become widespread over the last 25 years, stimulated by the Quinlan decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court, the report of a President's Commission, and most recently by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO), which now man dates that each hospital seeking accreditation have a functioning process for the consideration of ethical issues in patient care. Laws and regulations in several states require that hospitals establish ethics committees, and some states stipulate that certain types of cases and disputes be taken to such committees. At least one state grants legal immunity to those who implement recommendations of an ethics committee.

Hospital ethics committees in the United Kingdom

HEC Forum ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
EricM. Meslin ◽  
Claire Rayner ◽  
Vic Larcher ◽  
Tony Hope ◽  
Julian Savulescu
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Hospital Ethics Committees ◽  
Hospital Ethics

Ethical and Social Issues in Medicine

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Springer Loewy ◽  
Erich H. Loewy ◽  
Faith T. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Health Care Ethics ◽  
Good Medicine ◽  
Personal Morality ◽  
Online Access

So rapidly has the field of health care ethics continued to grow that, when recently “googled,” the term produced 28.2 million hits. The challenge is to address the ethical and social issues in medicine in this very limited article space. It remains an impossible task to present more than a superficial discussion of these complex issues and the complicated cases in which they are to be found. Like good medicine, good ethics cannot be practiced by algorithm. The authors have opted to provide an operational guide to help clinicians sort through the ethical and social quandaries they must face on a daily basis. To that end, the authors have chosen to divide this chapter into the following sections: 1. A brief description of the biopsychosocial nature of ethics and how it differs from personal morality 2. A method for identifying and dealing with ethical issues 3. A discussion of the role of bioethicists and ethics committees 4. The professional fiduciary role of clinicians 5. Listings of some of the common key bioethical and legal terms (online access only) 6. A very brief discussion of the terms cited in the above listings (online access only) This reviews contains 4 tables, 8 references, 1 appendix, and 20 additional readings. Keywords: Ethical, social, right, wrong, good, bad, obligation, moral authority, critically reflective, and multiperspectival activity, Curiosity, Honesty, Patience, Open-mindedness

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