关于建立医院伦理委员会的思考

社会主义市场经济的建立以及科学技术的进步,极大地推动了医学科学事业的迅猛发展,同时亦会产生出许多医患矛盾和医德难题,从而在客观上越来越迫切地要求基层医疗单位建立专门机构来研究、协调和解决这些新矛盾、新问题。那么,医院伦理委员会的建立就成为必然,作者从世界性医德难题的出现入手,重点阐述了医院伦理委员会产生的社会历史背景,及其内涵特征、地位功能等,并对医院伦理委员会建立过程中应注意的几个问题提出了独特的看法。

An Idea Outline about Setting up Ethics Committee in Hospital

The article explores ways to foster and perfect fine professional ethics among medical personnel while raising their level of medical treatment and the quality of medical services, from various angles such as optimized adoption and utilization of world -wide new and high medical tachnologies, and examination of solution methods of ethical problems in trades and professions under the conditions of market economy and competition; and suggests the need for hospitals to set up ethics committee and work methods depending on the concrete conditions of various hospitals.