Table 1

hospital ethics committees in Israel by hospital size

Number of hospital bedsNo ethics committeeInformal ethics committeePatients' rights ethics committeeBoth informal and patients' rights ethics committees
Includes all acute care hospitals as of January 2001. Paediatric, women's and geriatric hospitals are excluded. The three regional patients' rights ethics committees are not included in the table.
<10013000
101–2007100
201–3003000
301–400102 (1 Never met)0
401–5002002 (1 PR never met)
>500216 (1 Never met)2 (1 PR never met)
Total28284