A structured ethical evaluation engine for clinicians and ethics committees. Grounded in published bioethical literature, fully traceable, and built to produce reasoning that holds up under scrutiny.
Consequentialist, deontological, and virtue-ethics reasoning combined in one evaluation.
None to critical, with recommended next steps. The tool informs the decision; it never makes it.
Every score, threshold, and citation is recorded in a governance-ready audit trail.
Decision support for the clinician who has to answer for it.
Fully traceable, framework-grounded ethical reasoning for clinical decisions, without compromising values, evidence, or accountability.
Built for clinicians, ethics committees, and governance teams.
ClinicalEthica is an early-stage prototype of a structured ethical reasoning layer for clinical decision-making. It provides heterogeneous ethical evaluation of proposed clinical actions by combining consequentialist, deontological, and virtue-ethics reasoning, with Beauchamp and Childress’s four principles as its default analytical framework. The output is explainable and cited, and is designed to support clinical deliberation, ethics committee review, and governance documentation.
Built for the people who bear responsibility for clinical ethical decisions.
The reasoning behind clinical decisions is invisible. Until it needs to be.
Most clinical ethical reasoning happens silently. In the corridor, in the registrar’s head, at the bedside between two consultants. The decision gets recorded. The reasoning rarely does. When a case is reviewed weeks or months later, the trail that led to the action is reconstructed from memory, not from a record.
This works until it doesn’t. A complaint, a coroner’s inquiry, a governance audit, or a teaching review can each ask the question that the original decision-maker never had to answer in writing: why this action, and not the alternatives?
ClinicalEthica does not replace that reasoning. It makes it visible at the moment of decision, in a form that survives the review.
Clinical ethical decisions are being made faster, under more pressure, with less structure than ever before.
Three frameworks. One evaluation. Every decision traceable.
Deterministic evaluation. No black box. Every score, threshold and citation reproducible.
See it evaluate.
A cycle through three cases. Same engine, three outcomes: Proceed, Escalate, Halt. Each with its own trace and citations.
How it works
Three stages, fully traceable end to end. Click through each stage to see what happens under the hood.
Your evidence, always within reach.
A case is only as good as the evidence behind it. The repository lets you store the documents that matter to your practice: trust policies, NICE guidance, committee minutes, journal articles, and past case reviews. When you build a case, type / anywhere in the dilemma or clinical context to pull in a document and ground the reasoning in your own materials.
The engine can restrict retrieval to the documents you have referenced, or treat them as the most important evidence while still searching across the broader framework library. Every referenced document is shown in the results trace, so the answer is never just an opinion; it is an opinion tied to something you can cite.
Add PDFs, pasted text, and clinical notes into folders you control.
Type / while writing a case to search your repository and insert a document.
Retrieved evidence is badged in the results, so reasoning stays auditable.
The same reasoning architecture applies wherever high-stakes decisions need to survive scrutiny.
Clinical ethics is the first domain because the frameworks are unusually well codified. The engine, however, is general. Any field in which a decision must be defensible against multiple, sometimes conflicting, normative standards can adopt the same structure of layered evaluation, non-derogable prohibitions, and arbitrated composite output.
In every case, the pattern is the same. Structured input, layered evaluation, arbitrated composite output, full trace. The frameworks change with the field. The architecture does not.
Apply a framework to a clinical dilemma. See a fully traceable analysis in seconds.
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