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Expanding Opportunities for Ethics Committees: Residential Centers for the Mentally Retarded and Developmentally Disabled

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Walter Edinger
Walter Edinger
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Ohio, Clinical Ethicist at Medical College Hospital, Toledo, and consultant for the Northwest Ohio Developmental Center, Toledo, and Firelands Community Hospital, Sandusky, Ohio
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Over the past 15 years, ethics committees have become common within the acute care hospital setting. Their development within long-term care settings has evolved more slowly and has been confined primarily to nursing homes. In this paper, I describe the development of an ethics committee in a residential center for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled (MR/DD). I describe how the committee has progressed and some of the ethical issues in this setting.

Type
Special Section: Ethical Decision Making and Persons with Mental Retardation
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Spring 1994 , pp. 226 - 232
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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