title: The roles and functions of hospital-based ethics committees.
abstract: Ethics committees ar becoming much more visible on the Canadian health care scene. They range from research-ethics committees that decide whether research projects are ethically sound to case-oriented committees that look at particular issues and give advice. Eike-Henner Kluge says that ethics committees are useful tools, but only when they are appropriately constituted and function in a professional manner. Otherwise, he warns, they become either useless or a liability.
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Kluge
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D032802:Committee Membership; D026724:Ethical Review; D026822:Ethicists; D017041:Ethics Committees; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D018570:Risk Assessment