Facilitating Medical Ethics Case Review: What Ethics Committees Can Learn from Mediation and Facilitation Techniques

Medical ethics committees are increasingly called on to assist doctors, patients, and families in resolving difficult ethics issues. Although committees are becoming more sophisticated in the substance of medical ethics, little attention has been given to the processes these committees use to facili...

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Published in:Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics 1992, Vol.1 (1), p.63-74
Main Authors: West, Mary Beth, Gibson, Joan McIver
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bioethics
Conflict (Psychology)
Decision Making, Organizational
Ethical Review
Ethics Committees - organization & administration
Ethics Committees, Clinical
Hospitals - standards
Humans
Interdisciplinary Communication
Models, Organizational
Models, Psychological
Negotiating
Organizational Objectives
Power (Psychology)
Referral and Consultation - organization & administration
Role
Social Facilitation
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Summary:Medical ethics committees are increasingly called on to assist doctors, patients, and families in resolving difficult ethics issues. Although committees are becoming more sophisticated in the substance of medical ethics, little attention has been given to the processes these committees use to facilitate decision-making. In 1990, the National Institute for Dispute Resolution in Washington, D.C., provided a planning grant from its Innovation Fund to the Institute of Public Law of the University of New Mexico School of Law to look at what ethics committees can learn from facilitation and mediation techniques. The study's thesis was that, if adapted for use by medical ethics committees, facilitation and mediation techniques can be helpful to those bodies in case review consultations and in other internal committee processes. This article reports on that project.
ISSN:0963-1801
1469-2147
DOI:10.1017/S0963180100000098