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Is Evaluating Ethics Consultation on the Basis of Cost a Good Idea?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2005

ANN E. MILLS ,
PATRICIA TERESKERZ  and
WALT DAVIS
ANN E. MILLS
Affiliation:
Ann E. Mills, M.Sc., M.B.A., is Assistant Professor and Director of Outreach Programs at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
PATRICIA TERESKERZ
Affiliation:
Patricia Tereskerz, J.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
WALT DAVIS
Affiliation:
Walt Davis, M.D., M.A., is Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Education and a member of the University of Virginia's Clinical Ethics Service, at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Despite the fact that ethics consultations are an accepted practice in most healthcare organizations, many clinical ethicists continue to feel marginalized by their institutions. They are often not paid for their time, their programs often have no budget, and institutional leaders are frequently unaware of their activities. One consequence has been their search for concrete ways to evaluate their work in order to prove the importance of their activities to their institutions through demonstrating their efficiency and effectiveness.

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SPECIAL SECTION: OPEN FORUM
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 57 - 64
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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