Current Paediatrics
Volume 11, Issue 5 , Pages 381-385, October 2001

The role of clinical ethics committees

  • P.T. Rudd (Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Lecturer)

Bath Unit for Research into Paediatrics, Royal United Hospital, Bath, University of Bath, Bath

Abstract 

Clinical ethics committees (CEC) have been established in many hospitals in the USA and there are approximately 20 in the UK. Most are led by clinicians and have a number of different roles including, education of staff in ethical matters, ensuring policies which are sensitive to the needs and rights of patients and providing expert advice for particularly difficult ethical problems. This paper describes in detail the CEC at a large district general hospital in the west of England.

Keywords: clinical ethics committee, case referrals, consent to treatment, refusal of treatment

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PII: S0957-5839(01)90213-1

doi:10.1054/cupe.2001.0213

Current Paediatrics
Volume 11, Issue 5 , Pages 381-385, October 2001

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