Table 3.

Configuration of Hospital Ethics Committees

1. Number of HEC members	n = 43
〜 5	1
6〜10	15
11〜15	18
16〜20	6
21 〜	3
2. Attributes of chair persons	n = 44
Hospital director	7
Vice director in charge of patient safety	11
Vice director in charge of something other than patient safety	7
Physician of patient safety department	6
Healthcare ethics expert (medical professional)	5
Healthcare ethics expert (non-medical professional)	2
Nurse	0
Others	6
3. Attributes of HEC members (multiple answers allowed)	n = 44
Hospital director	6
Vice director (physician)	29
Physician of patient safety department	31
Physician other than above	34
Director of nursing	27
Nurse	25
Pharmacist	32
Medical professional other than physician, nurse, and pharmacist	17
Social worker	17
Hospital administrative staff	31
Ethics expert	15
In-house attorney	2
Legal councel	10
Attorney other than in-house attorney and legal councel	10
Specialist in humanities and social sciences other than ethics	4
Representative for general public	9
Other	4
4. Number of external HEC members	n = 43
3 ~	5
2	5
1	10
0	10
0 (but a legal council is a member of HEC)	10
Others	3