title: [Situation and role of local structures of hospital ethics: s survey of Hospital Public Care in Paris].
abstract: This article presents the main results of a survey carried out among the local structures for hospital ethics of the Public Assistance sector of the Hospitals of Paris. The results show that the situation of these structures has completely transformed itself since the law of 1988 on human research. Only four ethics committees subsist out of the 16 university-hospital committees that existed in 1991. Seven new structures have been created since 1994, which are open to all categories of personnel and within which doctors are a minority. The four ethics committees provide almost no decision making opinions anymore and are, like the new groups, fora for discussion, reflection, or even information on issues of hospital ethics. Almost none of these structures has an official mission. This situation presents the question of the role that a local ethics structure can hold within a hospital.
authors.affiliation: Groupe Image-ENSP, Saint-Maurice.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Mino
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Weill
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010297:Paris