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. 2005 Jul 23;331(7510):227-9.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7510.227.

Ethics and the structures of health care in the European countries in transition: hospital ethics committees in Croatia

Ana Borovecki  1 , Stjepan Oresković, Henk ten Have
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Ethics and the structures of health care in the European countries in transition: hospital ethics committees in Croatia

Ana Borovecki et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Hospital ethics committees are a recent phenomenon in countries in transition. Croatia's example shows they are staffed mainly by older doctors with no specialist knowledge of ethical issues. The importance of professional relationships and the educational function of ethics committees have been ignored

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Ethics comes to Croatia's former healthcare factories
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