Orchestrating an ethics committee: who should be on it, where does it best fit?
What is the board's role in ethical policy and decisionmaking? What is the most appropriate place for an ethics committee within the hospital organization? This article presents the viewpoints of some of today's leaders in the area of biomedical ethics on those questions and their thoughts as to what changes ethics committees may undergo in the future.
D004989:Ethics; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D006075:Governing Board; D006761:Hospitals; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012380:Role