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- Title
Ethical challenges assessed in the clinical ethics Committee of Psychiatry in the region of Southern Denmark in 2010-2015: a qualitative content analyses.
- Authors
Bruun, H.; Lystbaek, S. G.; Stenager, E.; Huniche, L.; Pedersen, R.
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>The aim of this article is to give more insight into what ethical challenges clinicians in mental healthcare experience and discuss with a Clinical Ethics Committee in psychiatry in the Region of Southern Denmark. Ethical considerations are an important part of the daily decision-making processes and thereby for the quality of care in mental healthcare. However, such ethical challenges have been given little systematic attention - both in research and in practices.<bold>Methods: </bold>A qualitative content analysis of 55 written case-reports from the Clinical Ethics Committee. The Committee offers clinicians in mental healthcare structured ethical analyses of ethical challenges and makes a thorough written case-report.<bold>Results: </bold>The ethical challenges are grouped into three overarching topics: 1. Clinicians and their relation to patients and relatives. 2. Clinicians and institutional aspects of mental healthcare 3. Clinicians and mental healthcare in a wider social context. Through presentation of illustrative examples the complexity of daily clinical life in mental healthcare becomes evident, as well as typical interests, values and arguments.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>This qualitative study indicates that difficult ethical challenges are an inherent part of mental healthcare that requires time, space and competence to be dealt with adequately.
- Subjects
MENTAL health services &; ethics; MEDICAL decision making; PSYCHIATRY; PATIENT-professional relations; ETHICS committees; ETHICS
- Publication
BMC Medical Ethics, 2018, Vol 19, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1472-6939
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1186/s12910-018-0308-z