Table 4.

Characteristics of ethics committees

	General Hospital
Characteristics	Mean ± SD	Range
Total members	10.3 ± 4.9	4–27
External members	1.2 ± 1.4	0–8
Female members	1.3 ± 1.3	0–8
Discipline
Chief of staff	0.7 ± 0.04	0–1
Co-chief of staff	1.4 ± 0.9	0–4
Physician	4.1 ± 4.3	0–18
Nurse	1.2 ± 1.0	0–7
Co-medical staff	0.5 ± 0.9	0–5
Administrator	0.5 ± 1.0	0–4
Attorney/Consultant	0.4 ± 0.6	0–3
Philosopher/Ethicist	0.3 ± 0.6	0–4
Other	0.4 ± 0.9	0–6