Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-cfpbc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-20T10:01:47.136Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Measuring Hospital Ethics Committee Success

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Linda S. Scheirton
Linda S. Scheirton
Affiliation:
Center for Health Economics and Policy, The University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

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.

Type
Special Section: Ethics Consultants and Ethics Consultations
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , Fall 1993 , pp. 495 - 504
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. La Puma, J, Stocking, CB, Silverstein, MD et al. , An ethics consultation service in a teaching hospital: utilization and evaluation. Journal of the American Medical Association 1988;260:808–11.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2. Minnesota Hospital Association. Minnesota Network for Institutional Ethics Committees, Evaluating the effectiveness of ethics committees. Ethics News 1988;8(4):1–6.Google Scholar

3. Guidi, DJ. Hospital Ethics Committees: Potential Mediators for Educational and Policy Change. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1983. (Dissertation Abstracts International 1983;43(11):3529-B.)Google Scholar

4. See note 2. Minnesota Hospital Association. 1988:1–6.Google Scholar

5. Scheirton, LS. The Relationship between Ethics Committee Success and the Training and Status of the Chairperson in University Teaching Hospitals. (Doctoral Dissertation). Austin, Texas: The University of Texas, 1990 (Dissertation Abstracts International 1991/1992, 52(2):379).Google Scholar

6. Scheirton, LS. Determinants of hospital ethics committee success. HEC Forum 1992;4(6):342–59.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed