Principles and procedures of medical ethics case consultation.
Ethical conflicts are common in hospital medicine. This article reviews core medical ethics principles, describes models for conducting hospital-based ethics case consultations, and highlights the contributions of hospital ethics committees to high quality patient care.
Banerjee
Dipanjan
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Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
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Ware G
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D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D033061:Ethics Consultation; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005544:Forecasting; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom