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. 1996 Apr 1;154(7):1094–1095.

The roles and functions of hospital-based ethics committees.

E H Kluge
PMCID: PMC1487585  PMID: 8625033

Abstract

Ethics committees ar becoming much more visible on the Canadian health care scene. They range from research-ethics committees that decide whether research projects are ethically sound to case-oriented committees that look at particular issues and give advice. Eike-Henner Kluge says that ethics committees are useful tools, but only when they are appropriately constituted and function in a professional manner. Otherwise, he warns, they become either useless or a liability.

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