Improving Clinical Ethics,
One Code at a Time
a rigorously developed clinical ethics coding tool that supports shared language, robust documentation, and reliable analysis across cases, time, and institutions
What is the CERT System?
The Clinical Ethics Reporting and Tracking (CERT) System is the first coding tool for clinical ethics consultation developed using best practices in typology design. It offers more than standardization—it provides a reliable, tested structure for capturing the core ethical questions and clinical contexts at the heart of ethics consultation.
Built for Rigor. Ready for Practice.
- Mutually exclusive primary codes
- Inclusion / exclusion criteria
- Inter-coder reliability tested
- Designed by clinical ethicists