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. 2016 Dec;28(4):273-282.
doi: 10.1007/s10730-015-9299-z.

Models of Ethics Consultation Used by Canadian Ethics Consultants: A Qualitative Study

Chris Kaposy  1 , Fern Brunger  2 , Victor Maddalena  2 , Richard Singleton  3
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Models of Ethics Consultation Used by Canadian Ethics Consultants: A Qualitative Study

Chris Kaposy et al. HEC Forum. 2016 Dec.

Abstract

This article describes a qualitative study of models of ethics consultation used by ethics consultants in Canada. We found four different models used by Canadian ethics consultants whom we interviewed, and one sub-variant. We describe (1) the lone ethics consultant model, (1a) the hub-and-spokes sub-variant of this model; (2) the ethics committee model; (3) the capacity-building model; and (4) the facilitated model. Previous empirical studies of ethics consultation describe only two or three of these models.

Keywords: Bioethics; Clinical ethics; Ethics consultation; Health care ethics; Organizational ethics.

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