title: [Brain death committees of university hospitals in Japan].
abstract: We carried out a questionnaire survey on the brain death committees of university hospitals in Japan. Fewer than a half of university hospitals have independent brain death committees. However, a tendency was observed from this survey that the university hospitals established independent brain death committees from the pre-existing ethical committees. The role of anesthesiologists seems to become more important for decision of the brain death.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Niigata University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tsukui
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimoji
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology; D001926:Brain Death; D017041:Ethics Committees; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires