ArticleProceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center)2013
Consults for conflict: the history of ethics consultation.
Article in Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Impacts of mandatory clinical ethics consultation on resource utilization and ethical conflicts in critically ill patients: a comparison between medical and surgical intensive care units.BMC medical ethics · 2025Trial
- Impact of Mandatory Clinical Ethics Consultation for Neurocritically Ill Patients.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2026Article
- [Clinical Ethics Consultation: Ethics matter to all of us!]Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2025Article
- Clinical ethics consultation documentation in the era of open notes.BMC medical ethics · 2023Review
- "There Was a Sense That Our Load Had Been Lightened": Evaluating Outcomes of Virtual Ethics Rounds for Veterinary Team Members.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Ethics consultations in neuro-oncology.Neuro-oncology practice · 2021Article
- The role of hospital ethics committees in emergency medicine practice.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2020Article
- Hospital/clinical ethics committees' notion: an overview.Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine · 2016Review
- Membership recruitment and training in health care ethics committees: Results from a national pilot survey.AJOB empirical bioethicsArticle
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Abstract
The very existence of ethics consultation reflects both the increasing complexity of modern medicine's ethical questions and our discomfort with the prospect of answering them alone. Two developments in the past century were instrumental in driving the development of ethics consultation-organ replacement therapy and intensive care. With the proliferation of extreme life-prolonging measures came the thorny difficulties in the withdrawal of such services or rationing when resources were poor. Insofar as "someone must," lamented Dr. Karen Teel (a pioneer of ethics consultation), the physician "is charged with the responsibility of making ethical judgments which we are sometimes ill-equipped to make." More than anything, ethics consultation has come to best satisfy a central desire of American health care-sharing the responsibility for tough decisions.
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