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2 HEC F. 1 (1990)

handle is hein.journals/hecforum2 and id is 1 raw text is: HE C FORUM, Vol 2, pp. 1-2, 1990. 0956-2737/90 $3.00+.00 Printed in the USA All rights reserved. Copyright ® 1990 Pergamon Press plc EDITORS' INTRODUCIION: DOCUMENT EXCHANGE HECs tend to function in isolation. Operating independently, they frequently generate a variety of materials, e.g., operational or procedural documents, syllabi, preliminary and even final hospital policies, special bibliographies, data bases and procedures for accessing them. With this issue, H E C Forum introduces a special section - DOCUMENT EXCHANGE - where, periodically, documents will be published by HECs willing to share them with the Forum readership. The first contribution has been provided by Memorial Medical Center, Springfield, Illinois - Resuscitation of Patients: One Medical Center's New Approach. The committee that produced this document met innumerable times, formulated a number of drafts, moved the penultimate document through the appropriate administrative channels, and eventually celebrated its adoption at Memorial Medical Center. In addition to the frequent and important hospital function concerning a decision whether or not to attempt to resuscitate a particular patient, there are a number of other issues that require the formulation of hospital policies that include an ethical component. The Editors and Associate Editors of H E C Forum therefore take this occasion to invite the readership to submit documents on the following issues: procedures for initiating active and retrospective case review, for committee-sponsored case consultation, for the process of arriving at treatment decisions concerning seriously ill newborns, for the implementation of life-support interventions, for implementing required requests for organ donation, and for appropriate and effective documentation of committee action. This list is not, of course, exhaustive; there are a number of additional issues that hospitals and other health care institutions have raised, but for which no present policies or guidelines exist in these same institutions. Thus the invitation to the readership is broadly cast, and the hope is that many documents will be forwarded that reflect each institution's mandate to provide quality patient care. It is important to point out that a risk accompanies the formulation of future policies signaled by H E C Forum - that policies that appear in DOCUMENT EXCHANGE might be straightforwardly adopted by committees in health care institutions thereby short-

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