This study describes which clinical ethics approaches are available to support healthcare
personnel in clinical practice in terms of their construction, functions and goals. Healthcare …

Objectives: Pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is associated with significant
morbidity and mortality. We sought to summarize literature on communication and decision …

Background: Moral case deliberation is increasingly becoming part of various Dutch
healthcare organizations. Although some evaluation studies of moral case deliberation have …

Ethical climate (EC) has been broadly described as how well institutions respond to ethical
issues. Developing a tool to study and evaluate EC that aims to achieve sustained …

When clinical ethics committee members discuss a complex ethical dilemma, what use do
they have for normative ethical theories? Members without training in ethical theory may still …

Background Fast medical progress poses a significant challenge to doctors, who are asked
to find the right balance between life-prolonging and palliative care. Literature indicates …

Different methods are available in clinical ethics consultation. In our experience as ethics
consultants, certain individual methods have proven insufficient, and so we use a …

Abstract Background Clinical Ethics Support Services (CESS) have been established to
support healthcare professionals in addressing ethically sensitive issues in clinical practice …

Ethics support services like Moral Case Deliberation (MCD) intend to support healthcare
professionals in ethically difficult situations. To assess outcomes of MCD, the Euro-MCD …

Leading paradigms of clinical ethics consultation closely follow a biomedical model of care.
In this paper, we present a theoretical reflection on the underlying biomedical model of …