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Committees: Clinical Ethics Committees

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Clinical ethics committees (CECs) are multidisciplinary and independent groups, including health professionals and lay members that aim to provide support for decision-making on ethical issues arising from several aspects of patient care. Their primary functions are ethics education, policy development and review, and case consultation. More recently, some CECs, particularly those affiliated with academic institutions and large healthcare systems, have expanded their traditional functions to become more comprehensive ethics programs, addressing both clinical and organizational ethics issues.

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  1. Fondazione Lanza, Padua, Italy

    Renzo Pegoraro

  2. Bioethics Unit, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Institute of Health), Via Giano della Bella 34, I-00162, Rome, Italy

    Carlo Petrini

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  1. Duquesne University Center for Healthcare Ethics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Henk ten Have

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Pegoraro, R., Petrini, C. (2015). Committees: Clinical Ethics Committees. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_105-1

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