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- Title
Participation and perception of nurse members in the hospital ethics committee.
- Authors
Oddi LF; Cassidy VR
- Abstract
One approach for dealing with ethical dilemmas in health care delivery has been the creation of institutional ethics committees. The ideas of creating special committees to address ethical dilemmas in health care is not new: In the 1960s, such committees were used to make allocation decisions for the use of scarce dialysis machines for patients in renal failure (Merritt, 1987); and their use received significant impetus when the New Jersey Supreme Court assigned them an important role in the Karen Quinlan case (President's Commission, 1983). Two additional influences have contributed to the steady growth of ethics committees in health care institutions: (a) the recommendation by the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research (President's Commission, 1983) that health care institutions should consider creating ethics committees to discuss life-and-death consequences for incompetent patients, and (b) the promulgation in 1984 of the 'Baby Doe' regulations on the withholding of treatment from newborn infants with birth defects ('Nondiscrimination on the Basis,' 1984).
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 1990, Vol 12, Issue 3, p307
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/019394599001200304