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3. A quality of life quandary: a framework for navigating parental refusal of treatment for co-morbidities in infants with underlying medical conditions

Author

Sarah N, Kunz, Ryan M, McAdams, Douglas S, Diekema, and Douglas J, Opel

Subjects
Adult, Male, Decision Making, Infant, Newborn, Bartter Syndrome, Choice Behavior, Treatment Refusal, Withholding Treatment, Enterocolitis, Necrotizing, Professional-Family Relations, Intensive Care Units, Neonatal, Ethics Consultation, Intensive Care, Neonatal, Quality of Life, Humans, Premature Birth, Female, Parental Consent, Digestive System Surgical Procedures, Ethical Analysis
Abstract

Parental refusal of a recommended treatment is not an uncommon scenario in the neonatal intensive care unit. These refusals may be based upon the parents' perceptions of their child's projected quality of life. The inherent subjectivity of quality of life assessments, however, can exacerbate disagreement between parents and healthcare providers. We present a case of parental refusal of surgical intervention for necrotizing enterocolitis in an infant with Bartter syndrome and develop an ethical framework in which to consider the appropriateness of parental refusal based upon an infant's projected quality of life.

Published
2015

6. The case of A.R.: the ethics of sibling donor bone marrow transplantation revisited

Author

Douglas J, Opel and Douglas S, Diekema

Subjects
Adult, Male, Parents, Adolescent, Prisoners, Siblings, Decision Making, Sex Offenses, Beneficence, Choice Behavior, Minors, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Fatal Outcome, Ethics, Clinical, Recurrence, Social Justice, Personal Autonomy, Living Donors, Humans, Female, Child, Bone Marrow Transplantation
Published
2006

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