How Pediatricians Counsel Parents When No "Best-Choice" Management Exists: Lessons to Be Learned from Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 436-441

  Kon, Alexander A ^a,d   Ackerson, Lynn ^b   Lo, Bernard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CARDIOLOGY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEONATOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWOOD PALLIATIVE SURGEY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARENT COUNSELING; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PEDIATRICIAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGEON; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS;

EID: 2442548579     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.158.5.436     Document Type: Review

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