Ethics and the structures of health care in the European countries in transition: hospital ethics committees in Croatia

Ana Borovecki; Stjepan Oresković; Henk ten Have

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7510.227

Ethics and the structures of health care in the European countries in transition: hospital ethics committees in Croatia

BMJ. 2005 Jul 23;331(7510):227-9. doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7510.227.

Authors

Ana Borovecki¹, Stjepan Oresković, Henk ten Have

Affiliation

¹ Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia. abor@mef.hr

Abstract

Hospital ethics committees are a recent phenomenon in countries in transition. Croatia's example shows they are staffed mainly by older doctors with no specialist knowledge of ethical issues. The importance of professional relationships and the educational function of ethics committees have been ignored

MeSH terms

Croatia
Delivery of Health Care / ethics*
Ethics Committees, Clinical / organization & administration*
Ethics, Institutional*
Health Services / ethics*
Health Surveys
Health Transition*
Humans
Surveys and Questionnaires