No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The two-day conference will focus on the history, current status, and future of HCECs -Hospital Ethics Committees, Infant Care Review Committees, and Long-Term Care Ethics Committees -and will analyze their roles, functions, and responsibilities in hospitals, their neonatal units, and in long-term care settings. The impact of HCECs on local communities will also be addressed.
HCEC membersphysicians, nurses, clergy, clinical ethicists, other direct-care providers, hospital administrators, attorneys, risk managers, ancl others interested in ethical issues in health care-will contribute to, and benefit from, this conference.
In addition, the conference will explore the different roles of, and interactions among HCECs. Parallels to other institutional committees, c.g., IRBs, will be drawn and explored with the aim of stimulating mutual assistance and the general economy of operation that such complex committee undertakings require.
Despite the fact that approximately sixty percent of U.S. hospitals and a growing number of Canadian hospitals have HECs (Maryland has virtually mandated their cxistence), there are at present no shared standards for their functions and procedures. Indeed, it remains appropriate to ask: Should there be national standards? During the conference, PRIM&R intends to provide a forum to discuss additional issues, including: treatment/nontreatment decisions, ethical problems concerning the treatment of seropositive health care providers, privacy and chart-keeping, scarcity and allocation of ICU beds, and legal intervention with respect to the decision-making of pregnant women.
Please plan to attend what promises to be an exciting and informative national conference, the first in our annual commitment to explore ethical issues of concern to HCEC members. For a program and additional information, please call or write:
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