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The roles and functions of hospital-based ethics committees. 1996

E H Kluge

Ethics committees ar becoming much more visible on the Canadian health care scene. They range from research-ethics committees that decide whether research projects are ethically sound to case-oriented committees that look at particular issues and give advice. Eike-Henner Kluge says that ethics committees are useful tools, but only when they are appropriately constituted and function in a professional manner. Otherwise, he warns, they become either useless or a liability.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D002170	Canada	The largest country in North America, comprising 10 provinces and three territories. Its capital is Ottawa.
D004992	Ethics, Medical	The principles of professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of the physician, relations with patients and fellow practitioners, as well as actions of the physician in patient care and interpersonal relations with patient families.	Medical Ethics
D006761	Hospitals	Institutions with an organized medical staff which provide medical care to patients.	Hospital
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D017041	Ethics Committees	Committees established by professional societies, health facilities, or other institutions to consider decisions that have bioethical implications. The role of these committees may include consultation, education, mediation, and/or review of policies and practices. Committees that consider the ethical dimensions of patient care are ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; committees established to protect the welfare of research subjects are ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH.	Institutional Ethics Committees,Regional Ethics Committees,Committee, Ethics,Committee, Institutional Ethics,Committee, Regional Ethics,Committees, Ethics,Committees, Institutional Ethics,Committees, Regional Ethics,Ethics Committee,Ethics Committee, Institutional,Ethics Committee, Regional,Ethics Committees, Institutional,Ethics Committees, Regional,Institutional Ethics Committee,Regional Ethics Committee
D018570	Risk Assessment	The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)	Assessment, Risk,Benefit-Risk Assessment,Risk Analysis,Risk-Benefit Assessment,Health Risk Assessment,Risks and Benefits,Analysis, Risk,Assessment, Benefit-Risk,Assessment, Health Risk,Assessment, Risk-Benefit,Benefit Risk Assessment,Benefit-Risk Assessments,Benefits and Risks,Health Risk Assessments,Risk Analyses,Risk Assessment, Health,Risk Assessments,Risk Benefit Assessment,Risk-Benefit Assessments
D026724	Ethical Review	A formal process of examination of patient care or research proposals for conformity with ethical standards. The review is usually conducted by an organized clinical or research ethics committee (CLINICAL ETHICS COMMITTEES or RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEES), sometimes by a subset of such a committee, an ad hoc group, or an individual ethicist (ETHICISTS).	Review, Ethical
D026822	Ethicists	Persons trained in philosophical or theological ethics who work in clinical, research, public policy, or other settings where they bring their expertise to bear on the analysis of ethical dilemmas in policies or cases. (Bioethics Thesaurus)	Bioethicists,Bioethics Consultants,Clinical Ethicist,Clinical Ethicists,Ethicist, Clinical,Ethicists, Clinical,Ethics Consultants,Bioethicist,Bioethics Consultant,Consultants, Bioethics,Consultants, Ethics,Ethicist,Ethics Consultant
D028741	Ethics Committees, Clinical	Hospital or other institutional ethics committees established to consider the ethical dimensions of patient care. Distinguish from ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH, which are established to monitor the welfare of patients or healthy volunteers participating in research studies.	Clinical Ethics Committee,Clinical Ethics Committees,Committee, Clinical Ethics,Committee, Hospital Ethics,Committees, Clinical Ethics,Committees, Hospital Ethics,Ethics Committee, Clinical,Ethics Committee, Hospital,Ethics Committees, Hospital,Hospital Ethics Committee,Hospital Ethics Committees
D028744	Ethics Committees, Research	Hospital or other institutional committees established to protect the welfare of research subjects. Federal regulations (the "Common Rule" (45 CFR 46)) mandate the use of these committees to monitor federally-funded biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects.	Institutional Review Boards,Board, Institutional Review,Boards, Institutional Review,Ethics Committee, Research,IRB,IRBs,Institutional Review Board,Research Ethics Committee,Research Ethics Committees,Review Board, Institutional,Review Boards, Institutional,Committee, Research Ethics,Committees, Research Ethics