TY - JOUR T1 - The roles and functions of hospital-based ethics committees JF - Canadian Medical Association Journal JO - CMAJ SP - 1094 LP - 1095 VL - 154 IS - 7 AU - E. H. Kluge Y1 - 1996/04/01 UR - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/154/7/1094.abstract N2 - 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. ER -