A Pilot Evaluation of Portfolios for Quality Attestation of Clinical Ethics Consultants |
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| Authors: | Joseph J. Fins Eric Kodish Felicia Cohn Marion Danis Arthur R. Derse Nancy Neveloff Dubler |
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| Affiliation: | 1. New York Presbyterian Hospital–Weill Cornell Center;2. Cleveland Clinic;3. Kaiser Permanente Orange County and American Society for Bioethics and Humanities;4. National Institutes of Health;5. Medical College of Wisconsin;6. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and NYU Langone Medical Center |
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| Abstract: | Although clinical ethics consultation is a high-stakes endeavor with an increasing prominence in health care systems, progress in developing standards for quality is challenging. In this article, we describe the results of a pilot project utilizing portfolios as an evaluation tool. We found that this approach is feasible and resulted in a reasonably wide distribution of scores among the 23 submitted portfolios that we evaluated. We discuss limitations and implications of these results, and suggest that this is a significant step on the pathway to an eventual certification process for clinical ethics consultants. |
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| Keywords: | clinical ethics consultation ethics consultants quality assessment portfolio evaluation |
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