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Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0722
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Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Use
There are no restrictions.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to research.
Preferred Citation
Hospital Medical Ethics Committee records, Accession #MS-11, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by the Ethics Committee.
Biographical / Historical
In 1983, the University of Virginia Hospital Medical Policy Committee created the Hospital Medical Ethics Committee to develop policies relating to the issues of "Baby Doe" regulations, withdrawal of life support and right to die, brain death determination, and indigent care. The first meeting was on January 4, 1984, and its first chairman was Dr. Edward W. Hook.
Scope and Contents
The Hospital Medical Ethics Committee Collection includes agendas, minutes, memos, policy drafts, articles and case studies related to the topics of discussion at committee meetings from its creation in 1983 to 2000. Highlights of the collection include discussions of the "Baby Doe" case, indigent access to care, the Natural Death Act, organ donation, HIV testing, confidentiality, development of the Code of Ethics, and the establishment of the Ethics Consultation Service (ECS) at the University of Virginia Hospital.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in chronological order, with the Organizational Ethics Subcommittee papers beginning at Box 5, folder 17.
General
- Processed by:
- Historical Collections Staff
Container List
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 01
Establishment of the Medical Ethics Committee and charges
1983 October 10
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 02
Meeting Agenda: Ethics and Cost
1984 January 4
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 03
Meeting Agenda: Patient Bill of Rights, Baby Doe, fees
1984 February 21
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 04
Meeting Agenda: Infant Care Review Committee, Baby Doe
1984 March 20
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 05
Meeting Agenda: Right to Die, Infant Care review committee, finders fees for research subjects
1984 April 17
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 06
Meeting Agenda: Infant Care review Committee, "finders fees" conflict of interest, right to die, indigent care
1984 May 15
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 07
Meeting Agenda: Baby Doe, Natural Death Act, Indigent Care
1984 June 19
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 08
Meeting Agenda: Clinical Consulting, Abortion fees for indigents
1984 September 27
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 09
Meeting Agenda: Abortion policies, "finders fees"
1984 November 6
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 10
Meeting Agenda: Composition, charges, responsibilities and accomplishments of Medical Ethics Committee (Special meeting with
Congressional Aides)
1984 November 28
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 11
Meeting Agenda: Baby Doe, Infant care, Abortion policies
1984 December 20
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 12
Meeting Agenda: Abortion deposit policy
1985 January 22
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 13
Meeting Agenda: Composition, charges, responsibilities and accomplishments of the Ethics committee (Special session with Congressional
Aides)
1985 February 11
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 14
Meeting Agenda: Abortion Deposit Policy
1985 February 26
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 16
Meeting Agenda: Virginia Natural Death Act
1985 April 23
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 17
Meeting Agenda: Charges to Ethics Committee, Natural Death Act
1985 May 28
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 18
Meeting Agenda: Natural Death Act, Patient information, "living wills"
1985 June 25
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 19
Meeting Agenda: Baby Doe, staff education regarding Natural Death Act
1985 September 24
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 20
Meeting Agenda: Proposed legislation regarding consent to medical treatment
1985 October 15
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 21
Meeting Agenda: Guidelines for treatment decisions
1985 November 26
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 22
Meeting Agenda: Discontinuation of Dialysis, Natural Death Act, living wills
1986 January 14
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 23
Meeting Agenda: Treatment authorization, "Required request" for organ donation
1986 February 11
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 24
Meeting Agenda: Ventilator management policies, DNR policy, Patient information about resuscitation
1986 May 28
Mixed Materials box: 01 folder: 25
Meeting Agenda: case followup, "Required request," ventilator management, New York DNR case, Patient information on resuscitation
1986 June 25
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 01
Meeting Agenda: Resuscitation and DNR issues
1986 October 14
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 02
Meeting Agenda: Patient information, resuscitation issues
1986 November 10
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 03
Meeting Agenda: Informed consent, confidentiality regarding testing for HIV antibody
1987 March 3
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 04
Meeting Agenda: Testing for HIV antibody, Patient rights document revision, patient information about resuscitation and living
wills
1987 June 29
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 05
Meeting Agenda: Ethics consultations, HIV antibody testing
1987 September 23
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 06
Meeting Agenda: Ethics Consultation Service, Determination of death
1987 November 18
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 07
Meeting Agenda: HIV testing policies, Determining brain death, Ethics consultation subcommittee
1988 January 19
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 08
Meeting Agenda: Committee on Determination of Brain Death, Ethics Consultation Service, Anencephalic infants as organ donors
1988 March 22
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 09
Meeting Agenda: Housestaff manual, Ethics Consultation service, DNR policy, patient information
1988 April 21
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 10
Meeting Agenda: Brain death determination, autopsies, Ethics Consultation service
1988 May 10
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 11
Meeting Agenda: Ethics Consultation service, Subcommittee on Anencephalic infants as organ donors, subcommittee on autopsies,
DNR guidelines
1988 June 29
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 12
Meeting Agenda: Use of cadavers in safety testing
1988 July 18
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 13
Meeting Agenda: Consent for transfusion, subcommittee on Anencephalic infants as organ donors, subcommittee on the determination
of brain death
1988 September 12
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 14
Meeting Agenda: Guidelines for Brain Death determination, Natural Death Act brochure, Notification regarding HIV testing,
Ethics consultation service
1988 October 17
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 15
Meeting Agenda: Autopsy subcommittee, Ethics Consultation service, living will brochure, notification about HIV testing
1988 November 21
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 16
Meeting Agenda: Autopsy consent form, Ethics Consultation service, DNR policy
1988 December 19
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 17
Meeting Agenda: Identification of students involved in patient care, Ethics Consultation service, DNR policy draft
1989 January 16
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 18
Meeting Agenda: Evaluation of Ethics Committee, Guardianship issues, Identification of students involved in patient care,
autopsy consent, DNR policy
1989 February 20
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 19
Meeting Agenda: Ethics Consultation Service, identification of medical students, Information for hospital patients, substance
abuse and pregnancy
1989 April 17
Mixed Materials box: 02 folder: 20
Meeting Agenda: Anencephalic infants as organ donors presentation, HIV seroprevalence study, DNR policy
1989 May 22
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 01
Meeting Agenda: HIV seroprevalence study, Evaluation of Ethics consultations, DNR policy
1989 June 19
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 02
Meeting Agenda: "Practices of Written and Oral Consent" presentation, Anencephalic infants as organ donors, Donor oocyte program,
living will
1989 September 25
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 03
Meeting Agenda: Ethics Consultation Service, patient information brochures
1989 October 16
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 04
Meeting Agenda: Patient Rights to self-determination Bill, CPR as medical therapy
1989 November 20
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 05
Meeting Agenda: Right to Die, Ethics Consultation Service, Sister egg donors, smoking privileges for hospice patients
1989 December 18
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 06
Meeting Agenda: Hospital living will policy, DNR central registry, Ethics Consultation service, "Code of Ethics" from UVA
Hospital bylaws
1990 January 15
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 07
Meeting Agenda: Living Will brochure, Non-physicians with clinical appointments conflict of interest, Ethics Consultation
service
1990 February 19
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 08
Meeting Agenda: Treatment of HIV patients, Research using aborted fetal tissue
1990 March 19
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 09
Meeting Agenda: Patient Care brochure, Ethics Consultation service, Confidentiality in use of patient information for teaching
1990 April 16
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 10
Meeting Agenda: Subcommittee on confidentiality issues, Ethical decision-making involving MICU patients, Ethics Consultation
service
1990 May 21
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 11
Meeting Agenda: Confidentiality Medical Policy, Donor eggs from friends, Ethics Consultation service
1990 June 18
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 12
Meeting Agenda: Ethics Consultation Service Natural Death Act case
1990 July 5
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 13
Meeting Agenda: Patient Self-determination Act, Patient handbook, abortion policy, Ethics Consultation service
1990 September 17
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 14
Meeting Agenda: Abortion policy, Ethics consultation service evaluation survey
1990 October 15
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 15
Meeting Agenda: Living will education, Ethics committee confidentiality, Ethics Consultation service
1990 November 19
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 16
Meeting Agenda: Confidentiality policy, Living will education, Ethics Consultation service survey, Access to care
1990 December 17
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 17
Meeting Agenda: Living Will education, DNR and intra-hospital transfers, Indigent care and budget cuts, Ethics Consultation
service
1991 January 21
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 18
Meeting Agenda: Policy on Indigent care, Ethics Consultation service survey, Ethics Consultation service
1991 February 18
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 19
Meeting Agenda: Ethics Consultation service, Living wills, Access to health care
1991 March 18
Mixed Materials box: 03 folder: 20
Meeting Agenda: Access to health care, Ethics Consultation service, Confidentiality policy
1991 April 15
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 01
Meeting Agenda: Confidentiality of Student health records, subcommittee on Advance directives, Access to health care, Ethics
Consultation service
1991 May 20
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 02
Meeting Agenda: Student health audit, Ethics Consultation service survey, Access to health care, Ethics Consultation service
1991 June 17
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 03
Meeting Agenda: Access to health care, Ethics Consultation service survey, Student Health Audit, Ethics Consultation service
1991 July 15
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 04
Meeting Agenda: Ethics Consultation service survey, Confidentiality and patient release, DNR policy, Confidentiality policy
in cafeteria, Ethics education, Ethics Consultation service
1991 September 16
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 05
Meeting Agenda: Ethics Consultation service survey, DNR orders during radiology and anesthesiology procedures, Ethics Consultation
Service, Patient Self-Determination Act
1991 October 21
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 06
Meeting Agenda: Ethics Consultation Service survey, DNR orders during radiology and anesthesiology procedures, Patient Self-Determination
Act, Colloquy for State Appellate Judges, Ethics Consultation Service
1991 November 18
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 07
Meeting Agenda: DNR, Ethics Consultation Service, Ethics Consultation Service survey, Evaluation of Subcommittee of Ethics
Consultation Service
1991 December 16
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 08
Meeting Agenda: Suspension of DNR orders, DNR policy revision, Ethics Consultation Service survey, Ethics Consultation Service
1992 January 20
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 09
Meeting Agenda: DNR policy revisions, Patient Self-determination Act, Ethics Consultation Service
1992 February 17
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 10
Meeting Agenda: Ethics Consultation Serves Survey results
1992 March 16
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 11
Meeting Agenda: Indigent organ transplants, Ethics Consultation Service, DNR policy
1992 May 18
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 12
Meeting Agenda: Access to transplants by indigents, Pain management, Ethics Consultation Service
1992 June 15
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 13
Meeting Agenda: Advance Directives policy changes, Ethics Consultation service final evaluation, DNR policy changes, Ethics
Consultation Service
1992 September 21
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 14
Meeting Agenda: Virginia Organ Procurement Agency presentation, DNR policy, Ethics Consultation Policy, Ethics Consultation
Service
1992 November 16
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 15
Meeting Agenda: Ethics consultation policy, CPR survival, Ethics Consultation service
1992 December 21
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 16
Meeting Agenda: Infant Brain death policy, DNR policy, Education on Advance Directives, Ethics Consultation Service
1993 January 18
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 17
Meeting Agenda: Advance Directives, Mandatory reassessment of DNR orders, Ethics Consultation Service, Brain Death policy
revision
1993 February 15
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 18
Meeting Agenda: Infant Brain Death policy, Patient Self-determination Act Compliance Evaluation, Ethics Consultation Service,
DNR policy revision, EMS-DNR policy, Ethics Consultation Service evaluation
1993 April 19
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 19
Palliative and Terminal Care research initiative, Humanities and Caring for terminally ill patients, Virginia's Health Care
Decision Act of 1992, DNR orders problems and policies, Withdrawing treatment, Advance Directives
1993 May 10
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 20
Meeting Agenda: Neonatal Brain Death Policy, DNR policy revisions, Advance Directives Committee
1993 May 17
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 21
Meeting Agenda: Formation of Executive Committee, formation of subcommittee on Ethics Education, Health Care Ethics forum
1994 January 17
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 22
Meeting Agenda: Liver lobe transplantation, Education Subcommittee, Ethics Consultation Service
1994 February 21
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 23
Decision-making policy in non-capable pregnant patients
1994 April 11
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 24
Revised Confidentiality policy
1994 May 26
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 25
Drug Dosages and terminally ill patients
1994 June 13
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 26
Forgoing Treatment policy
1995 July 20
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 27
Meeting Agenda: Therapeutic effects of Cannabis
1995 October 16
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 28
Meeting Agenda: Brain Death policy, Education subcommittee
1996 January 15
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 29
Ethics Consultation Policy
1996 February 27
Mixed Materials box: 04 folder: 30
"Revised Guidelines for the Determination of Brain Death"
1996 March 8
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 01
Subcommittee to Revise the Advance Directives policy
1996 March 18
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 02
Meeting Agenda: Organizational Ethics policy, Patient Brochure
1996 May 20
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 03
Ethics Consultation Policy changes
1996 June 5
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 04
Meeting Agenda: Ethics Consultation Service, Education Program, Organizational code of ethics
1996 October 25
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 05
Meeting Agenda: Blood Bank and C-J disease, organizational code of ethics, Awareness of activities
1996 November 18
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 06
Meeting Agenda: Transfusion and C-J disease, community ethics education, informed consent
1997 January 31
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 07
Meeting Agenda: Informed consent, code of ethics, surrogate decision-makers, patient management
1997 February 24
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 08
Meeting Agenda: Early Identification of ICU patient surrogates, Ethics Education
1997 March 28
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 09
Meeting Agenda: Ethics Education Liaisons, Notification of at-risk patients, DNR policy, resuscitation of near-viable infants
1997 April 28
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 10
Meeting Agenda: Code of ethics, Albumen shortage, DNR problems
1997 June 30
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 11
Resources in short supply and their distribution
1997 July 18
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 12
Meeting Agenda: "Forgoing Treatment" policy, ethics education liaisons
1997 September 22
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 13
Meeting Agenda: Code of physician ethics, Patient rights and responsibilities
1998 October 19
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 14
Meeting Agenda: Living donor liver transplantation, confidentiality, code of ethics
1998 October 30
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 15
Meeting Agenda: "Forgoing Treatment" policy, partial liver transplantation
1998 November 16
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 16
Meeting Agenda: "Mailbox in-service" education, Medical policies
1999 April 16
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 17
Meeting Agenda: Establishment of Organizational Ethics Subcommittee, code of ethics
1996 October 28
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 18
Meeting Agenda: UVA Medical Center Code of Ethics, confidentiality of computerized patient records
1996 November 18
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 19
Meeting Agenda: Code of Ethics, confidentiality
1996 December 16
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 20
Meeting Agenda: Code of Ethics, surrogate decision-makers
1997 January 20
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 21
Meeting Agenda: Code of Ethics, managed care
1997 February 10
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 22
Meeting Agenda: Patient care, Code of Ethics
1997 March 17
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 23
Meeting Agenda: Code of Ethics
1997 April 28
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 24
Meeting Agenda: Code of Ethics
1997 June 2
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 25
Meeting Agenda: Confidentiality of genetic testing, institutional ethics education
1997 July 21
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 26
Meeting Agenda: Code of Ethics scenarios, hospital costs for patients
1997 October 20
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 27
Meeting Agenda: Compendium of costs
1997 November 10
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 28
Meeting Agenda: Compendium of costs, Physicians code of ethics, Physicians treating family members
1997 December 15
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 29
Meeting Agenda: Genetic testing confidentiality
1998 January 19
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 30
Meeting Agenda: Pharmacy costs
1998 February 16
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 31
Meeting Agenda: Compendium of costs, genetic services
1998 March 16
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 32
Meeting Agenda: Creation of Genetic Services Subcommittee
1998 April 20
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 33
Meeting Agenda: Expectations of Behavior
1998 June 15
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 34
Meeting Agenda: Physicians responsibility, physicians code of ethics
1998 October 9
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 35
Meeting Agenda: Code of Ethics
1998 December 11
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 36
Meeting Agenda: Code of Ethics
1999 January 8
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 37
Meeting Agenda: Corporate compliance
1999 March 12
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 38
Meeting Agenda: Compendium of costs, Code of Ethics for Health Care Professionals
1999 May 14
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 39
"Physician relationship to patients, other physicians, systems of care, and society"
1999 June 8
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 40
Meeting Agenda: Health System Corporate Compliance
1999 September 10
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 41
Meeting Agenda: Code of Ethics
1999 October 8
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 42
Meeting Agenda: Code of Ethics, Standards of Business Conduct
1999 November 10
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 43
Meeting Agenda: Ethics case studies, Privacy/Confidentiality
2000 January 14
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 44
Meeting Agenda: Confidentiality and facilities planning
2000 February 11
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 45
Meeting Agenda: Confidentiality/Privacy-sensitive Environment planning
2000 March 17
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 46
Meeting Agenda: Confidentiality, Compendium of costs
2000 April 14
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 47
Meeting Agenda: Confidentiality, Code of Ethics, Compliance Code of Conduct
2000 May 12
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 48
Meeting Agenda: Code of Ethics
2000 September 8
Mixed Materials box: 05 folder: 49
Meeting Agenda: Conflict of Interest, Code of Ethics and Compliance
2000 November 10