What and who are clinical ethics committees for?
- 30 August 2007
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Medical Ethics
- Vol. 33 (9) , 497-500
Abstract
As support for clinical ethics committees in the UK grows, care must be taken to define their function, membership and method of working and the status of their decisions.Keywords
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