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ArticleHEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues2011

The functioning of hospital ethics committees: a multiple-case study of four Canadian committees.

Alice Gaudine, Marianne Lamb, Sandra M Lefort, Linda Thorne

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Article in HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Models of Ethics Consultation Used by Canadian Ethics Consultants: A Qualitative Study.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alice GaudineSchool of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. agaudine@mun.ca
Marianne Lamb
Sandra M Lefort
Linda Thorne

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A multiple-case study of four hospital ethics committees in Canada was conducted and data collected included interviews with key informants, observation of committee meetings and ethics-related hospital documents, such as policies and committee minutes. We compared the hospital committees in terms of their structure, functioning and perceptions of key informants and found variation in the dimensions of empowerment, organizational culture of ethics, breadth of ethics mandate, achievements, dynamism, and expertise.

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Professional RoleCanadaEthics Committees, ClinicalHumansOrganizational CulturePower, PsychologicalProfessional CompetenceQualitative Research

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