title: Novel Paths to Relevance: How Clinical Ethics Committees Promote Ethical Reflection.
abstract: How may clinical ethics committees (CECs) inspire ethical reflection among healthcare professionals? How may they deal with organizational ethics issues? In recent years, Norwegian CECs have attempted different activites that stretch or go beyond the standard trio of education, consultation, and policy work. We studied the novel activities of Norwegian CECs by examining annual reports and interviewing CEC members. Through qualitative analysis we identified nine categories of novel CEC activities, which we describe by way of examples. In light of the findings, we argue that some novel working methods may be well suited to promote ethical reflection among clinicians, and that the CEC may be a suitable venue for discussing issues of organizational ethics.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Medical Ethics, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Pb. 1130 Blindern, 0318, Oslo, Norway. magelssen@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Morten
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Magelssen
authors.affiliation: Centre for Medical Ethics, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Pb. 1130 Blindern, 0318, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Reidar
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pedersen
authors.affiliation: Centre for Medical Ethics, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Pb. 1130 Blindern, 0318, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Reidun
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Førde
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D017041:Ethics Committees; D026690:Ethics, Clinical / Q000193:education*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000941:ethics / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009664:Norway; D016730:Program Development / Q000592:standards
keywords: Clinical ethics; Ethics committee; Organizational ethics