# Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/ethics-and-legal-issues-in-pediatric-healthcare/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
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| Description | This cluster of papers focuses on the ethical considerations and complexities involved in pediatric medical decision-making, particularly when there are disagreements between parents and medical professionals. It explores topics such as parental discretion, best interest standards, state intervention in treatment refusals, shared decision-making, conflict management, adolescent autonomy, and end-of-life decisions in pediatric care. |
| Domain | Health Sciences |
| Field | Medicine |
| OpenAlex ID | t14437 |
| Works | 84 |

## Topic papers all

Showing 15 of 84.

- [Communicating sad, bad, and difficult news in medicine](https://scholariq.org/papers/communicating-sad-bad-and-difficult-news-in-medicine/)
- [Neurological Disorders. Public Health Challenges](https://scholariq.org/papers/neurological-disorders-public-health-challenges-2/)
- [Neurological Disorders: Public Health Challenges](https://scholariq.org/papers/neurological-disorders-public-health-challenges/)
- [Development of Risk-Based Guidelines for Pediatric Cancer Survivors: The Children's Oncology Group Long-Term Follow-Up Guidelines From the Children's Oncology Group Late Effects Committee and Nursing Discipline](https://scholariq.org/papers/development-of-risk-based-guidelines-for-pediatric-cancer-survivors-the-children/)
- [End-of-life decision-making in six European countries: descriptive study](https://scholariq.org/papers/end-of-life-decision-making-in-six-european-countries-descriptive-study/)
- [An Official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Policy Statement: Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units](https://scholariq.org/papers/an-official-ats-aacn-accp-esicm-sccm-policy-statement-responding-to-requests-for/)
- [Shared Decision Making in ICUs](https://scholariq.org/papers/shared-decision-making-in-icus/)
- [Conscientious objection in medicine](https://scholariq.org/papers/conscientious-objection-in-medicine/)
- [Ethical and Policy Issues in Genetic Testing and Screening of Children](https://scholariq.org/papers/ethical-and-policy-issues-in-genetic-testing-and-screening-of-children/)
- [Toward Shared Decision Making at the End of Life in Intensive Care Units](https://scholariq.org/papers/toward-shared-decision-making-at-the-end-of-life-in-intensive-care-units/)
- [Rising National Prevalence of Life-Limiting Conditions in Children in England](https://scholariq.org/papers/rising-national-prevalence-of-life-limiting-conditions-in-children-in-england/)
- [Delivering transformative action in paediatric pain: a Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Commission](https://scholariq.org/papers/delivering-transformative-action-in-paediatric-pain-a-lancet-child-and-amp/)
- [Making decisions to limit treatment in life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in children: a framework for practice:](https://scholariq.org/papers/making-decisions-to-limit-treatment-in-life-limiting-and-life-threatening/)
- [Framework for identifying children who have chronic conditions: The case for a new definition](https://scholariq.org/papers/framework-for-identifying-children-who-have-chronic-conditions-the-case-for-a/)
- [Psychosocial Assessment as a Standard of Care in Pediatric Cancer](https://scholariq.org/papers/psychosocial-assessment-as-a-standard-of-care-in-pediatric-cancer/)

## Topic primary papers

- [An Official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Policy Statement: Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units](https://scholariq.org/papers/an-official-ats-aacn-accp-esicm-sccm-policy-statement-responding-to-requests-for/)
- [Ethical and Policy Issues in Genetic Testing and Screening of Children](https://scholariq.org/papers/ethical-and-policy-issues-in-genetic-testing-and-screening-of-children/)
- [Making decisions to limit treatment in life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in children: a framework for practice:](https://scholariq.org/papers/making-decisions-to-limit-treatment-in-life-limiting-and-life-threatening/)
- [Knowing when to stop: futility in the ICU](https://scholariq.org/papers/knowing-when-to-stop-futility-in-the-icu/)
- [Pilot Study of Medical-Legal Partnership to Address Social and Legal Needs of Patients](https://scholariq.org/papers/pilot-study-of-medical-legal-partnership-to-address-social-and-legal-needs-of/)
- [Association of rib anomalies and malignancy in childhood](https://scholariq.org/papers/association-of-rib-anomalies-and-malignancy-in-childhood/)
- [Doctors and Lawyers Collaborating to HeLP Children—: Outcomes from a Successful Partnership between Professions](https://scholariq.org/papers/doctors-and-lawyers-collaborating-to-help-children-outcomes-from-a-successful/)
- [Pediatric transplantation in Europe during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Early impact on activity and healthcare](https://scholariq.org/papers/pediatric-transplantation-in-europe-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-early-impact-on/)
- [Moving from ‘fully’ to ‘appropriately’ informed consent in genomics: The PROMICE framework](https://scholariq.org/papers/moving-from-fully-to-appropriately-informed-consent-in-genomics-the-promice/)
- [Confidentiality in the Care of Adolescents: Policy Statement](https://scholariq.org/papers/confidentiality-in-the-care-of-adolescents-policy-statement/)
- [Not just little adults: a review of 102 paediatric ethics consultations](https://scholariq.org/papers/not-just-little-adults-a-review-of-102-paediatric-ethics-consultations/)
- [How many children with severe neurodisability are being sent home on parenteral nutrition?](https://scholariq.org/papers/how-many-children-with-severe-neurodisability-are-being-sent-home-on-parenteral/)
- [For Debate: The Significance of Etiologic Diagnosis in Neonates with Overgrowth Syndromes. Lesson Learned from the Simpson-Golabi-Behmel Syndrome.](https://scholariq.org/papers/for-debate-the-significance-of-etiologic-diagnosis-in-neonates-with-overgrowth/)
- [Do Questions about Parent Concerns Provide Adequate Surveillance?](https://scholariq.org/papers/do-questions-about-parent-concerns-provide-adequate-surveillance/)
- [Challenging Case: A Toddler with Autism and Concerns About Release of Information in Medical Record](https://scholariq.org/papers/challenging-case-a-toddler-with-autism-and-concerns-about-release-of-information/)

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