Abstract

ARANGO BAYER, Gloria Lucía. INSTRUMENTS USED FOR MEASURING ETHICAL CLIMATE IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.2, pp.42-53. ISSN 1657-4702.

The study of ethical climate has become a matter of mandatory approach to bioethics, which faces the challenge of seeking ethical climates that promote consistency between what healthcare organizations claim to be and do and what they actually are and do. This in order, inter alia, to reduce the ethical conflicts that arise in health care professionals when these differences occur. The aim of this paper is to identify the instruments that have been used to measure the construct "ethical climate" in healthcare organizations, so that serves the academic and health organizations in the design of studies on this topic and allow them identify its characteristics. The results suggest the need to continue exploring the concept of ethical climate that incorporates the values, principles and rights to be considered from bioethics in the search for organizations that serve the objectives of the professions and health systems today.

Keywords : Health care; ethical climate; bioethics; measurement; instrument.

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