Can clinical ethics committees be legitimate actors in bedside rationing?

Rationing and allocation decisions at the clinical level - bedside rationing - entail complex dilemmas that clinicians and managers often find difficult to handle. There is a lack of mechanisms and aids for promoting fair decisions, especially in hard cases. Reports indicate that clinical ethics committees (CECs) sometimes handle cases that involve bedside rationing dilemmas. Can CECs have a legitimate role to play in bedside rationing?Aided by...