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Published on: February 16, 2011
Role of organization ethics in critical care medicine
Donna T Chen1, Patricia H Werhane, Ann E Mills
1Departments of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatric Medicine, Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Abstract:
The authors view the activities involved in critical care medicine as composing a complex adaptive system that is itself operating within a complex adaptive system, the healthcare organization. The authors explain why it is necessary that these systems be viewed this way, and they explain what is necessary to allow them to produce creative or emergent outcomes. They provide a justification for the role of an organization ethics program within this context. They provide a definition of organization ethics and outline the characteristics that an effective organization ethics program would possess.
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