PMID- 10474312
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19990921
LR  - 20191103
IS  - 1386-7415 (Print)
IS  - 1386-7415 (Linking)
VI  - 20
IP  - 3
DP  - 1999 Jun
TI  - The dream of consensus: finding common ground in a bioethical context.
PG  - 261-73
AB  - Consensus is the holy grail of bioethics, the lynch pin of the assumption that 
      well informed, well intentioned people may reach generally acceptable positions 
      on ethically contentious issues. It has been especially important in bioethics, 
      where advancing technology has assured an increasing field of complex medical 
      dilemmas. This paper results on the use of a multicriterion decision making 
      system (MCDM) analyzing group process in an attempt to better define hospital 
      policy. In a pilot program at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, a series 
      of small scale focus groups was constituted to examine criteria defining organ 
      transplant eligibility. Criteria were organized hierarchically using the Analytic 
      Hierarchy Process, an MCDM approach, and the resulting data was analyzed using 
      Expert Choice 9.0, software designed to facilitate AHP analysis. Qualitative and 
      quantitative analysis map barriers to practical consensus in a way not previously 
      possible.
FAU - Koch, T
AU  - Koch T
AD  - Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
FAU - Rowell, M
AU  - Rowell M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Theor Med Bioeth
JT  - Theoretical medicine and bioethics
JID - 9805378
SB  - IM
MH  - Child
MH  - *Consensus
MH  - *Decision Making, Organizational
MH  - Decision Support Techniques
MH  - *Eligibility Determination
MH  - *Ethics, Medical
MH  - Focus Groups
MH  - *Health Care Rationing
MH  - Humans
MH  - Ontario
MH  - *Organ Transplantation
MH  - *Patient Selection
MH  - Pilot Projects
MH  - Resource Allocation
OID - KIE: 63925
OTO - KIE
OT  - Health Care and Public Health
OT  - Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
GN  - KIE: KIE BoB Subject Heading: organ and tissue transplantation
GN  - KIE: KIE BoB Subject Heading: selection for treatment
GN  - KIE: Full author name: Koch, Tom
GN  - KIE: Full author name: Rowell, Mary
EDAT- 1999/09/04 00:00
MHDA- 1999/09/04 00:01
CRDT- 1999/09/04 00:00
PHST- 1999/09/04 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1999/09/04 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1999/09/04 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1023/a:1009995919835 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Theor Med Bioeth. 1999 Jun;20(3):261-73. doi: 10.1023/a:1009995919835.