Approaches to Ethical Decision Making in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

American Journal of Diseases of Children

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 1988, Pages 825-830

  Walters, James W ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PARENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; CULTURAL PLURALISM; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT; MORAL POLICY; PHYSICALLY DISABLED; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISKS AND BENEFITS; SELECTION FOR TREATMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES; VALUES; WEDGE ARGUMENT;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; CASE REPORT; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; ETHICS; ETHICS, INSTITUTIONAL; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; PARENTS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONHOOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; VALUE OF LIFE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0023755140     PISSN: 0002922X     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1988.02150080031015     Document Type: Article

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