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Multicenter Study
. 2011 Sep;23(3):225-38.
doi: 10.1007/s10730-011-9151-z.

The functioning of hospital ethics committees: a multiple-case study of four Canadian committees

Alice Gaudine  1 , Marianne Lamb, Sandra M Lefort, Linda Thorne
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Multicenter Study

The functioning of hospital ethics committees: a multiple-case study of four Canadian committees

Alice Gaudine et al. HEC Forum. 2011 Sep.

Abstract

A multiple-case study of four hospital ethics committees in Canada was conducted and data collected included interviews with key informants, observation of committee meetings and ethics-related hospital documents, such as policies and committee minutes. We compared the hospital committees in terms of their structure, functioning and perceptions of key informants and found variation in the dimensions of empowerment, organizational culture of ethics, breadth of ethics mandate, achievements, dynamism, and expertise.

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