Patients' Attitudes toward Hospital Ethics Committees

Youngner S.J. , A National Survey of Hospital Ethics Committees, Critical Care Medicine 11(11): 902–05 (November 1983); President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, Deciding to Forego Treatment: Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues in Treatment Decisions (U.S. Gov't Printing Office, Washington, D.C.) (1983) [hereinafter referred to as Deciding to Forego Treatment]; Cohen C.B. , Interdisciplinary Consultation on the Care of the Critically Ill and Dying: The Role of One Hospital Ethics Committee, Critical Care Medicine 10(11): 776–84 (November 1982) [hereinafter The Role of One Committee].

See e.g., Faden R.R. , Disclosure of Information to Patients in Medical Care, Medical Care 19(7): 718–33 (July 1981); Haug M. Lavin B. , Public Challenge of Physician Authority, Medical Care 17(8): 844–58 (August 1979); Brody D.S. , The Patient's Role in Clinical Decisionmaking, Annals of Internal Medicine 93(5): 718–22 (November 1980).

See generally Veatch R.M. , Death, Dying, and the Biological Revolution (Yale University Press, New Haven, Ct.) (1976).

The Patient's Role in Clinical Decision-Making, supra note 2, at 721; Jackson D.C. Youngner S.J. , Patient Autonomy and Death with Dignity, New England Journal of Medicine 301(8): 404–08 (August 1979); Siegler M. , Critical Illness: The Limits of Autonomy, Hastings Center Report 7(5): 12–15 (October 1977); Ackerman T.E. , Why Doctors Showid Intervene, Hastings Center Report 12(4): 14–17 (August 1982); Cassem N. , When to Disconnect the Respirator, Psychiatric Annals 9:84–93 (1979).

Eisendrath S.J. Jonsen A.R. , The Living Will: Help or Hindrance? Journal of the American Medical Association 249(15): 2054–58 (April 1983); Note, The California Natural Death Act: An Empirical Study of Physicians’ Practices, Stanford Law Review 31:913, 940 (May 1979).

See, e.g., Suber D.G. Tabor W.J. , Withholding of Life-Sustaining Treatment from the Terminally Ill, Incompetent Patient: Who Decides? Part I, Journal of the American Medical Association 248(18): 2250–51 (November 12, 1982); Part II, Journal of the American Medical Association 248(19): 2431–32 (November 19, 1982).

In re Quinlan, 355 A.2d 647 (N.J. 1976).

Critical Care Committee of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Optimum Care for Hopelessly Ill Patients, New England Journal of Medicine 295(7): 362, 364 (August 12, 1976).

Annas G.J. , In re Quinlan: Legal Comfort for Doctors, Hastings Center Report 6(3): 29–31 (June 1976); Hirsch H.L. Donovan R.E. , The Right to Die: Medico-Legal Implications of In re Quinlan, Rutgers Law Review 30(2): 267, 273, 276 (Winter 1977); Levine C. , Hospital Ethics Committees: A Guarded Prognosis, Hastings Center Report 7(3): 25–26 (June 1977); Veatch R.M. , Hospital Ethics Committees: Is there a Role? Hastings Center Report 7(3): 22–25 (June 1977).

Deciding to Forego Treatment, supra note 1, at 160–70.

A National Survey of Hospital Ethics Committees, supra note 1, at 903.

Deciding to Forego Treatment, supra note 1, at 168–69.

Id. at 170.

See Robertson J. , Committees as Decisionmakers: Alternative Structures and Responsibilities, in Institutional Ethics Committees and Healthcare Decisionmaking ( Cranford R.E. Doudera A.E. , eds.) (Health Administration Press, Ann Arbor, Mich.) (forthcoming 1984).

A National Survey of Hospital Ethics Committees, supra note 1, at 904.

The Role of One Committee, supra note 1; Optimum Care for Hopelessly Ill Patients, supra note 8.

The Role of One Committee, supra note 1 at 777 (emphasis added).

Deciding to Forego Treatment, supra note 1, at 442 (emphasis added).

A National Survey of Hospital Ethics Committees, supra note 1, at 904.

Keenan C. , Ethics Committees: Trend for Troubling Times, Hospital Medical Staff 12(6): 2–8 (June 1983).