Report on the Establishment of the Consortium for Hospital Ethics Committees in Japan and the First Collaboration Conference of Hospital Ethics Committees

IF 1.3 Q3 ETHICS

Asian Bioethics Review Pub Date : 2022-09-06 DOI:10.1007/s41649-022-00219-0

Kei Takeshita, Noriko Nagao, Hiroyuki Kaneda, Yasuhiko Miura, Takanobu Kinjo, Yoshiyuki Takimoto

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Abstract

Hospital ethics committees (HECs) are expected to play extremely broad and pivotal roles such as case consultation, education of staffs on healthcare ethics, and institutional policy formation. Despite the growing importance of HECs, there are no standards for setup and operation of HECs, and composition and activities of HECs at each institution are rarely disclosed in Japan. In addition, there is also a lack of information sharing and collaboration among HECs. Therefore, the authors established the Consortium of Hospital Ethics Committees (CHEC) in October 2020, which has been regularly hosting a couple of core activities. One is the Healthcare Ethics Forum, held monthly online for CHEC members to freely discuss HECs and healthcare ethics consultation. The other is the Collaboration Conference of Hospital Ethics Committees, intended to provide a place for HEC members and administrative officers from across Japan to exchange information of their HECs, learn from each other, and cooperate to operate HECs appropriately. In this paper, the authors introduced CHEC as well as reported the results of a questionnaire survey conducted at the first conference among participating facilities, suggesting the diverse structures and activities of HECs in Japan.

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关于在日本成立医院伦理委员会联合会和第一届医院伦理委员会合作会议的报告

医院道德委员会（HEC）预计将发挥极其广泛和关键的作用，如病例咨询、员工医疗道德教育和机构政策制定。尽管HEC的重要性日益增加，但HEC的设立和运营并没有标准，日本也很少披露各机构HEC的组成和活动。此外，HEC之间也缺乏信息共享和协作。因此，作者于2020年10月成立了医院伦理委员会联合会（CHEC），该联合会定期举办一些核心活动。一个是医疗伦理论坛，每月在线举行，CHEC成员可以自由讨论HEC和医疗伦理咨询。另一个是医院伦理委员会合作会议，旨在为来自日本各地的HEC成员和行政官员提供一个交流HEC信息、相互学习和合作以适当运营HEC的场所。在本文中，作者介绍了CHEC，并报告了在第一次会议上对参与机构进行的问卷调查结果，表明日本HEC的结构和活动多种多样。

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期刊介绍： Asian Bioethics Review (ABR) is an international academic journal, based in Asia, providing a forum to express and exchange original ideas on all aspects of bioethics, especially those relevant to the region. Published quarterly, the journal seeks to promote collaborative research among scholars in Asia or with an interest in Asia, as well as multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary bioethical studies more generally. It will appeal to all working on bioethical issues in biomedicine, healthcare, caregiving and patient support, genetics, law and governance, health systems and policy, science studies and research. ABR provides analyses, perspectives and insights into new approaches in bioethics, recent changes in biomedical law and policy, developments in capacity building and professional training, and voices or essays from a student’s perspective. The journal includes articles, research studies, target articles, case evaluations and commentaries. It also publishes book reviews and correspondence to the editor. ABR welcomes original papers from all countries, particularly those that relate to Asia. ABR is the flagship publication of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. The Centre for Biomedical Ethics is a collaborating centre on bioethics of the World Health Organization.