Medical Ethics Parental Decision Making

Pediatric decision-making: Help parents protect, …

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/pediatric-decision-making-help-parents-protect-empower-kids

In Opinion 2.2.1, “ Pediatric Decision-Making ,” the Code explains: As the persons best positioned to understand their child’s unique needs and interests, parents (or guardians) are asked to fill the dual responsibility of protecting their children and, …

Parental Decision Making | UW Department of …

https://depts.washington.edu/bhdept/ethics-medicine/bioethics-topics/detail/72

As a general rule, medical caretakers and others should challenge parental decisions when those decisions place the child at significant risk of serious harm. When satisfactory resolution …

Consent, Communication & Decision Making

https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/chapters/consent-communication-decision-making

Physicians should help parents, families, and fellow professionals understand that there is no ethical difference between withholding and withdrawing treatment, when an intervention no longer helps to …

Limiting Parents' Rights in Medical Decision Making

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/limiting-parents-rights-medical-decision-making/2006-10

Parents - Ethics, conflict and medical …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537980/

In Gillam’s analysis of parental discretion, she described the limits as set by the ‘harm threshold’: parents should not be able to make a decision “if the child is likely to suffer significant harm from …

Overriding parents’ medical decisions for …

https://jme.bmj.com/content/40/7/448

Kipnis, in his discussion of religiously-based parental refusals of medical care, puts forward the ‘decisional capacity of the minor’ as a crucial factor in determining whether a parental refusal ought to be …

Code of Medical Ethics - American Medical Association

https://www.ama-assn.org/sites/ama-assn.org/files/corp/media-browser/public/about-ama/councils/Council%20Reports/council-on-ethics-and-judicial-affairs/i07-ceja-pediatric-decision-making.pdf

36 making health care decisions for a patient, is particularly relevant. It is pertinent to decision- 37 making for pediatric patients who are either too young to have a health …

Overriding parents' medical decisions for their children: a …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23824967/

This paper reviews the ethical literature on conflicts between health professionals and parents about medical decision-making for children. We present the results of a …

Involving Minors in Medical Decision Making: …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30321891/

Involving Minors in Medical Decision Making: Understanding Ethical Issues in Assent and Refusal of Care by Minors. When caring for minors, the clinician-patient …