医疗/医院伦理委员会

Health Care/Hospital Ethics Committees(HECs)

日前,我们收到联合国教育、科学及文化组织科学与技术伦理司编写的《指南1:生命伦理委员会》、《指南2:生命伦理委员会的运作:程序与政策》的中、英文文本,其内容涉及生命伦理委员会面临的挑战与任务,国家、地区、地方、行业、医院、科研机构的伦理委员会,生命伦理委员会的运作程序与决策等。为促进我国生命(医学)伦理委员会的发展与提高,我们特选择其中一些内容的中英文文本,于本刊陆续发表。

Background HECs have been established to assist health care providers and patients to find their way out of the maze created by modern, technological medicine; they are chiefly designed to ensure good health care decision - making practices and to assist patients, but without interfering in the patient-physician relationship, To accomplish this and other goals, they have to undertake self-education, become involved in their health care institution＇s guidelines and policy development and, most important, address individual patients＇ cases that involve a bioethical and not just a medical review of the patient＇ s problems.