Clinical Ethics Consultation: Accountability or Shared Responsibility?

摘要

The concept of "accountability" is often used to describe a professional relationship that involves a question, an action, and an outcome. Thus, "accountability" "is associated with the process of being called 'to account' to some authority for one's actions" (Mulgan 2000). In such an exchange, there is social interaction between two entities-one who seeks answers and the otherwho responds and accepts any sanction implied with the right of authority accorded their answer or advice (Mulgan 2000).