An ethics case consultation is an explicitly structured deliberation and decision-making process concerning an individual patient and performed by an interprofessional team.
Ethics case consultations should comply with certain quality standards regarding structures, procedures, and results. These include, among others
Currently, a common framework for these quality standards has been developed within the international community for clinical ethics. Important documents are:
The clinical ethics consultation of ethiX is certified by the Akademie für Ethik in der
Medizin.