Evaluating assessment tools of the quality of clinical ethics consultations: a systematic scoping review from 1992 to 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Amidst expanding roles in education and policy making, questions have been raised about the ability of Clinical Ethics Committees (CEC) s to carry out effective ethics consultations (CECons). However recent reviews of CECs suggest that there is no uniformity to CECons and no effective means of assessing the quality of CECons. To address this gap a systematic scoping review of prevailing tools used to assess CECons was performed to foreground and guide the design of a tool to evaluate the quality of CECons.

Methods

Guided by Levac et al's (2010) methodological framework for conducting scoping reviews, the research team performed independent literature reviews of accounts of assessments of CECons published in six databases. The included articles were independently a

SUBMITTER: Yoon NYS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7329412 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature