Banerjee Dipanjan, Kuschner Ware G
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2007 Mar;68(3):140-4. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2007.68.3.22850.
Ethical conflicts are common in hospital medicine. This article reviews core medical ethics principles, describes models for conducting hospital-based ethics case consultations, and highlights the contributions of hospital ethics committees to high quality patient care.