Panel 1: The World Health Organization (WHO) Guidance on Clinical Ethics: Proposal for Structure and Content

Clinical ethics is a practical discipline that provides a structured approach to assist health professionals in identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues that arise in clinical practice. In the last decade, the area of Clinical Ethics has gained a lot of prominence within the field of hea...

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Published inThe journal of hospital ethics Vol. 9; no. 2; p. 13
Main Authors Reis, Andreas Alois, Shamsi-Gooshki, Ehsan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington MedStar Washington Hospital Center 01.09.2023
Subjects
Bioethics
Clinical medicine
Medical ethics
Medical personnel
Professional ethics
Professionals
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Summary:Clinical ethics is a practical discipline that provides a structured approach to assist health professionals in identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues that arise in clinical practice. In the last decade, the area of Clinical Ethics has gained a lot of prominence within the field of health ethics from a global perspective. In particular, COVID-19 has raised many clinical ethics issues, ranging from rationing at the bedside to providing unproven therapies. So far, while WHO's ethics guidance occasionally addresses specific clinical ethics issues, there is a lack of comprehensive, general WHO guidance on clinical ethics. The need for such a document has been repeatedly expressed by various technical departments and the Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centers for Bioethics. WHO clinical ethics guidance will be developed to support different stakeholders, mainly Member States and health policymakers, WHO technical departments, and also health care workers (HCWs) including medical professionals and non-professional health personnel, health facility administrators, international and national professional medical organizations such as medical councils, and professional associations, and health care workers syndicates, health governance, and ethics oversight agencies and committees.
ISSN:1938-4955
1938-4920