Toward the establishment of Ethics Support System in Japanese hospital

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24652004
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Osaka City University (2013-2015); Shiga University of Medical Science (2012)
• Principal Investigator: HAJI Toshiko (服部俊子) 大阪市立大学, 大学院看護学研究科, 准教授 (50609112)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OKITA Taketoshi 東北大学, 大学院医学系研究科, 助教 (70437325) ; KASHIMOTO Naoki 産業医科大学, 医学部, 助教 (20622533)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 医療組織倫理 / 病院内倫理委員会 / 倫理サポートシステム / 研究倫理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We evaluated how ethics committee activity should function in hospitals as healthcare organization through surveying the current status of Research Ethics Committee and Hospital Ethics Committee. Also, we picked up the issue to establish the ethical support system. Consequently, hospital ethical support system should be self-organized system to guarantee ethical medical practice.

Free Research Field

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