Clinical Ethics Consulting and Conflict of Interest: Structurally Intertwined

Author: Meyers, Christopher

Source: Hastings Center Report, March-April 2007 , pp. 32-40(9)

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Abstract:

Clinical ethical consultants are subject to an unavoidable conflict of interest. Their work requires that they be independent, but incentives attached to their role chip relentlessly at independence. This is a problem without any solution, but it can at least be ameliorated through careful management.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2007-03-01

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