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Descriptor English: Ethics Consultation
Descriptor Spanish: Consultoría Ética
Descriptor consulta ética
Scope note: Servicios prestados por un eticista (ETICISTAS) o un equipo o comité de ética (COMITÉS DE ÉTICA CLÍNICA) para tratar cuestiones éticas implicadas en un caso clínico específico. El objetivo fundamental es mejorar el proceso y los resultados de la atención al paciente ayudando a identificar, analizar y resolver los problemas éticos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Consultoria Ética
Descriptor French: Consultation d'éthique
Entry term(s): Consultation, Ethics
Consultations, Ethics
Ethics Consultations
Tree number(s): K01.752.566.479.117.200
N04.452.758.849.174
N05.350.250.200
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D033061
Scope note: Services provided by an individual ethicist (ETHICISTS) or an ethics team or committee (ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL) to address the ethical issues involved in a specific clinical case. The central purpose is to improve the process and outcomes of patients' care by helping to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical problems.
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: Ethical Review (2002)
Ethics Committees (1992-2001)
Referral and Consultation (1988-2001)
Public MeSH Note: 2003; see ETHICAL REVIEW 2002
History Note: 2003; use ETHICAL REVIEW 2002
Related: Ethics, Clinical MeSH
DeCS ID: 37703
Unique ID: D033061
NLM Classification: WB 60
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2003/01/01
Date of Entry: 2002/07/03
Revision Date: 2015/06/22
Ethics Consultation - Preferred
Concept UI M0383196
Scope note Services provided by an individual ethicist (ETHICISTS) or an ethics team or committee (ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL) to address the ethical issues involved in a specific clinical case. The central purpose is to improve the process and outcomes of patients' care by helping to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical problems.
Preferred term Ethics Consultation
Entry term(s) Consultation, Ethics
Consultations, Ethics
Ethics Consultations



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