Güterabwägungen und medizinethische Entscheidungen
Ausgabe: 2/2015
61. Jahrgang
Zum Gebrauch des Verantwortungsbegriffes innerhalb eines Krankenhauses
Within a hospital the principle of responsibility is used in different ways. The individual responsibility is realised by single doctors and nurses. The management which represents the hospital owner has an institutional responsibility. The retrospective responsibility refers to already completed medical procedures, which are directly accessible whereby objective and moral evaluation. In a hospital the prospective responsibility has a particularly high value. Hereby the possibilities and intentions of medical treatment for the benefit of the patient can be shown programmatically. The different levels of responsibilities within a hospital are represented in three characteristic examples: in the principle of quality and progress in medicine, in the individual and institutional responsibility of hygiene and in the hospital economics as special task for the institution.
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