Joan Mclver Gibson, Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner
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(Overview of accomplishments and future direction of hospital ethics committees) Overall, there is a modest sense of satisfaction with present mechanisms for dealing with ethical dimensions of patient care decisions, and a cautious optimism about the future. This is tempered by a growing, though as yet unfocused concern that emerging issues of cost, access, and quality of care will press ethics committees, now the “consciences” of institutions, into service on behalf of the community at large. . .
Gibson JM, Kushner TK. Will the “Conscience of an Institution” Become Society’s Servant? Hastings Cent. Rep. 1986 Jun;9-11.