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Clinical and Organizational Ethics

Ethics is everyone’s business. I believe in it and I am committed to it!

Clinical ethics focuses on actual experiences or dilemmas that arise in the relationship among the user, loved ones, and caregivers.

Organizational ethics deals with the ethical stakes in the organization of care and services as well as the managerial practises of the institution.

Code of Ethics

The Code of Ethics of the CIUSSS de l’Estrie – CHUS is the chosen medium to inform users of their rights and to explain the practises and conduct expected of professionals practising in the community.

The Code of Ethics is intended for all those providing care and services directly and indirectly to users and their loved ones as well as for the latter.

The stated commitments focus on:

  • Respect and the dignity of the individual;
  • Integrity, personal autonomy, representation, and participation in decision-making;
  • The quality, safety, accessibility, and continuity of care and services;
  • Information and the confidentiality of personal information;
  • End-of-life care;
  • Entitlement to address a complaint;
  • Collaboration of users and their loved ones.

Consult the Code of Ethics of the CIUSSS de l’Estrie - CHUS

Code of Ethics of the CIUSSS de l'Estrie ­­– CHUS | French - English

Filing a request to the ethics committee

Are you or a loved one experiencing a specific or complex situation related to care or to a service?

Do you have the impression that a value conflict is at the centre of the issue?

Have you tried to speak about it to the workers involved - unsuccessfully?

You could perhaps file a request to consult with the ethics committee. The user, one of his loved ones or his representative, as well as any person or body working within the institution may file a request for information or for a consultation with the ethics committee.

Filing your request

There are three ways to file your request:

* In your email or during your call, please provide a background summary of the issue you wish to bring to the attention of the ethics committee.

Examples of situations involving ethics

Do you wonder which situations can be brought to the attention of the ethics committee? Here are a few examples:

  • Issues related to consent or refusal of care for a child;
  • A family disagreement regarding the care to be provided to a person incapable of giving consent;
  • Difficult decisions at the beginning of life (premature birth);
  • Difficult end-of-life decisions (end-of-life care);
  • Issues with the provision of specific types of care: organ removal and donation, medically assisted procreation, family planning, genetic screening, HIV tests and HIV status, etc.;
  • Social or medical file confidentiality;
  • Disagreements within the team when deciding upon youth protection measures;
  • The sexuality of intellectually impaired persons;
  • Management issues concerning a user addicted to drugs or alcohol.

To contact the ethics committee

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