RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The roles and functions of hospital-based ethics committees
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 1094
OP 1095
VO 154
IS 7
A1 E. H. Kluge
YR 1996
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/154/7/1094.abstract
AB 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.