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Descriptor English: Ethics Committees
Descriptor Spanish: Comités de Ética
Descriptor comités de ética
Entry term(s) comités institucionales de ética
Scope note: Comités establecidos por sociedades profesionales, instalaciones sanitarias u otras instituciones con el fin de analizar decisiones que tienen implicaciones bioéticas. El papel de estos comités incluye la consulta, educación, mediación y revisión de políticas y prácticas. Los comités que consideran las dimensiones éticas de la atención a los pacientes se denominan COMITÉS DE ÉTICA CLÍNICA; los establecidos para proteger el bienestar de los sujetos de investigación se denominan COMITÉS DE ÉTICA EN INVESTIGACIÓN.
Descriptor Portuguese: Comissão de Ética
Descriptor French: Comités d'éthique
Entry term(s): Committee, Ethics
Committee, Institutional Ethics
Committee, Regional Ethics
Committees, Ethics
Committees, Institutional Ethics
Committees, Regional Ethics
Ethics Committee
Ethics Committee, Institutional
Ethics Committee, Regional
Ethics Committees, Institutional
Ethics Committees, Regional
Institutional Ethics Committee
Institutional Ethics Committees
Regional Ethics Committee
Regional Ethics Committees
Tree number(s): K01.752.566.479.147
N04.452.758.788.300
N05.350.268
N05.700.685.300
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017041
Scope note: Committees established by professional societies, health facilities, or other institutions to consider decisions that have bioethical implications. The role of these committees may include consultation, education, mediation, and/or review of policies and practices. Committees that consider the ethical dimensions of patient care are ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; committees established to protect the welfare of research subjects are ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Ethics, Medical (1966-1991)
Professional Staff Committees (1975-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
Related: Advisory Committees MeSH
Animal Care Committees MeSH
Ethical Review MeSH
DeCS ID: 30112
Unique ID: D017041
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/07/26
Revision Date: 2015/06/22
Ethics Committees - Preferred
Concept UI M0025891
Scope note Committees established by professional societies, health facilities, or other institutions to consider decisions that have bioethical implications. The role of these committees may include consultation, education, mediation, and/or review of policies and practices. Committees that consider the ethical dimensions of patient care are ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; committees established to protect the welfare of research subjects are ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH.
Preferred term Ethics Committees
Entry term(s) Committee, Ethics
Committees, Ethics
Ethics Committee
Regional Ethics Committees - Narrower
Concept UI M0025894
Preferred term Regional Ethics Committees
Entry term(s) Committee, Regional Ethics
Committees, Regional Ethics
Ethics Committee, Regional
Ethics Committees, Regional
Regional Ethics Committee
Institutional Ethics Committees - Narrower
Concept UI M0025893
Preferred term Institutional Ethics Committees
Entry term(s) Committee, Institutional Ethics
Committees, Institutional Ethics
Ethics Committee, Institutional
Ethics Committees, Institutional
Institutional Ethics Committee



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