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- Clinical ethics consultation is evolving into a significant field of interest for both healthcare professionals and ethicists, highlighting the need for more systematic studies on ethical challenges in clinical settings.
- The Thematic Issue includes five studies from Europe and the USA, addressing topics like end-of-life decision-making, experiences with ethics consultation services, and physicians' expectations regarding ethics consultation.
- The research presented emphasizes the influence of socio-cultural factors on clinical ethics consultation and aims to enhance the ongoing dialogue at both European and International levels.
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Clinical ethics consultation has developed from local pioneer projects into a field of growing interest among both clinicians and ethicists. What is needed are more systematic studies on the ethical challenges faced in clinical practice and problem solving through ethics consultation from interdisciplinary perspectives. The Thematic Issue covers a range of topics and includes five recent studies from various European countries and the USA, focusing on issues such as the ethical difficulties of end of life decisions, experiences with newly developed or well established ethics consultation services, and the expectations of physicians in various clinical fields who are still unfamiliar with clinical ethics consultation. The papers included illustrate the interface between different socio-cultural contexts and their ways of dealing with clinical ethics consultation. They deepen the dialogue on clinical ethics consultation that has emerged at the European and International level.
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