A French Perspective on Hospital Ethics Committees

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MINO ◽  
LAURE COPEL ◽  
JEAN-MICHEL ZUCKER
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Hospital Ethics Committees ◽  
New Models ◽  
Hospital Ethics

In this article we highlight the main points of the development of bioethics and ethics committees in France. We argue that the French cultural context of medicine and its current political transformations favor new models of hospital ethics committee and we provide an example of such a model developed at Paris's Institut Curie, the oldest French cancer treatment and research centre.

Hospital Ethics Committees in Paris

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Christophe Mino
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
National Level ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Institutional Form ◽  
Permanent Commission ◽  
Hospital Ethics Committees ◽  
The World ◽  
Hospital Ethics

Even if the term bioethics is used all over the world, its meanings are multiple and different, especially between American and European countries, depending on local cultural and medical contexts. These differences concern the issues discussed or the institutional form bioethics takes. In France, bioethics was used from the end of the 1970s and focused on research ethics and issues at the beginning of life. At the national level, a permanent commission, the “national consultative ethics committee on life sciences and health” (Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique, CCNE) was created by President François Mitterrand in 1983. Its recommendations dealt essentially with procreative medicine and biomedical research ethics.

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.

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.

Measuring Hospital Ethics Committee Success

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda S. Scheirton
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Hospital Ethics Committees ◽  
Institutional Innovations ◽  
Hospital Ethics

As hospital ethics committees (HECs) become more common in American hospitals, their degree of success should be measured. Just as new technological procedures are evaluated, institutional innovations should also be evaluated. Currently, little is known about the success of HECs, and some authors have wondered whether these committees serve any useful purpose at all. This article reviews the descriptive results of a 1990 study on HEC success as they pertain to the question of how to measure committee success.

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

The Status of Hospital Ethics Committees in Pennsylvania

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELLEN L. CSIKAI
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
American Hospital ◽  
American Hospital Association ◽  
Current State ◽  
Hospital Ethics Committees ◽  
Common Response ◽  
The Status ◽  
Hospital Ethics

Interdisciplinary hospital ethics committees have been the most common response to the mandates for ethical review procedures set forth by the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO, 1995 Standards), the American Hospital Association, and within institutions themselves. A 1989 national survey reported that 60% of hospitals had ethics committees. However, little is still known about the current state of these committees in hospitals, their composition, what functions are performed, or what issues are discussed.

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
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