SOCIAL WORKERS FOR THE ETHICS AND DEONTOLOGY COMMITTEES OF THE U.S.A. AND GREEK HOSPITALS
Anait Mertzanidou
Monday, July 1, 2024
Publication year:
2024
Author:
- Mertzanidou Anait, MSc, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
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Pages: 222-241
Abstract:
The study refers to the ethics committees in U.S. public hospitals as a mechanism of ensuring and promoting the ethical dimension of their administrative, economic, clinical and social functions. Beginning after a tradition of contentious committees in the 1970s, under the title of Hospital Ethics Committees (HEC), they had a developmental process as the promotional factors prevailed on the limiting factors. Their most important functions are case review - ethics consultation, policy and ethics education, where the hospital social worker’s contribution is consistently recognized. They could act as models for the Ethics and Deontology Committee of the Greek hospitals, which the distance research, conducted for this article, showed as hospital-centered, as focused on providing research licensing and as where the hospital social worker’s participation is dependent of the electoral procedure of the Scientific Committee.
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