The adapted CoRE-Values framework: A decision-making tool for new clinical ethics advisory groups. (June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Manson, Helen; Fistein, Elizabeth; Heathcote, James; Whiteside, Anne; Wilkes, Laura; Dodman, Kevin; Schofield, Marcia
• Is Part Of: Clinical ethics. Volume 16:Number 2(2021)
• Page Start: 155
• Page End: 159
• Publication Date: 2021-06
• Subjects: Ethicists and Ethics Committees -- clinical ethics; Medical ethics -- Periodicals; 174.205
• DOI: 10.1177/1477750920946601
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1477-7509

Abstract

A new Clinical Ethics Advisory Group (CEAG) was created to contribute to NHS Trust policies and guidelines in response to ethical issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. An ethical analysis framework used in medical education, the CoRE-Values Compass and Grid, was adapted to form a step-wise 'ABC' decision-making process. CEAG members found the framework simple to understand and use and the model facilitated time-efficient decisions that were explicitly justifiable on moral, ethical, professional and legal grounds. The adapted CoRE-Values framework might help facilitate decision-making processes for similar new clinical ethics advisory or support committees.