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Bioethics Activities in Rural Hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2000

ANN FREEMAN COOK ,
HELENA HOAS  and
KATARINA GUTTMANNOVA
ANN FREEMAN COOK
Affiliation:
Ann Freeman Cook, M.P.A., is the Principal Investigator and Director of the High Mountains High Plains Rural Bioethics Project, as well as Director of the Research in Social Security Employment Supports (RISES) Project, at the University of Montana Rural Institute, Missoula
HELENA HOAS
Affiliation:
Helena Hoas, Ph.D., is the Research Manager for the High Mountains High Plains Rural Bioethics Project and the Research in Social Security Employment Supports (RISES) Project at the University of Montana, Missoula
KATARINA GUTTMANNOVA
Affiliation:
Katarina Guttmannova, B.A., is a Research Assistant at the Rural Institute and a graduate student in the Developmental Psychology program at the University of Montana, Missoula
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Abstract

Hospital ethics committees have evolved as a response to complicated legal, ethical, and social dilemmas that accompany modern medicine. In the United States, their growth has been augmented by Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standards and the Patient Self-Determination Act. There appears to be an implicit presumption that all clinical ethics consultation practices are relatively similar. Finally, there is heightened awareness of the needs for quality standards and assessment of the outcomes of ethics consultations.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: ISSUES IN ORGANIZATION ETHICS AND HEALTHCARE
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 230 - 238
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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