Genetic Testing for Children and Adolescents: Who Decides?

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 272, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 875-881

  Wertz, Dorothy C ^a   Fanos, Joanna H ^a   Reilly, Philip R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY LIFE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MATURITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0028132846     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1994.03520110055029     Document Type: Article

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