Furthering Effective Ethics Committees
Rosemary Flanigan
January 6, 2009
I want to share with you my resolution for 2010: that I shall work as hard as I can to further the effectiveness of ethics committees. We are a valuable resource within healthcare delivery, and we have built our foundation, edged onto the scene, and for the most part, we are partners.
BUT … across the country the trend is that most case reviews center on end-of-life, and often those cases are handled by the palliative care team, not by us.
I am not trumpeting a turf war here; frankly, those palliative care teams need to be educated as much as early ethics committees, because they are doing ethics.
Rather, I hope to point out other areas where we can make a difference as we made a difference in end-of-life care.
Link: Hospital Ethics Committees: Then and Now, Rosemary Flanigan
January 6, 2009
I want to share with you my resolution for 2010: that I shall work as hard as I can to further the effectiveness of ethics committees. We are a valuable resource within healthcare delivery, and we have built our foundation, edged onto the scene, and for the most part, we are partners.BUT … across the country the trend is that most case reviews center on end-of-life, and often those cases are handled by the palliative care team, not by us.
I am not trumpeting a turf war here; frankly, those palliative care teams need to be educated as much as early ethics committees, because they are doing ethics.
Rather, I hope to point out other areas where we can make a difference as we made a difference in end-of-life care.
Link: Hospital Ethics Committees: Then and Now, Rosemary Flanigan
Labels: hospital ethics committees; bioethics; aging and end of life
posted by Practical Bioethics at
7:56 AM
1 Comments:
That is great. As soon as I satisfy some January deadlines, I too plan to make HECs a focus of my energies this year.
Last year, I defended multi-institutional HECs as a way to overcome some of the problems facing intramural HECs.
http://works.bepress.com/thaddeus_pope/18/
I plan to continue that line of research, this year, in some articles and at relevant conferences. http://www.ethics2010.org/
Happy to share resources and ideas.
Thad Pope
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