Abstract
Although clinical ethics consultation is a high-stakes endeavor with an increasing prominence in health care systems, progress in developing standards for quality is challenging. In this article, we describe the results of a pilot project utilizing portfolios as an evaluation tool. We found that this approach is feasible and resulted in a reasonably wide distribution of scores among the 23 submitted portfolios that we evaluated. We discuss limitations and implications of these results, and suggest that this is a significant step on the pathway to an eventual certification process for clinical ethics consultants.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 15-24 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | American Journal of Bioethics |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 3 2016 |
Keywords
- clinical ethics consultation
- ethics consultants
- portfolio evaluation
- quality assessment
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects
- Health Policy