Policy statement - Pediatrician-family-patient relationships: Managing the boundaries

Pediatrics

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1685-1688

  Diekema, Douglas S ^e   Fallat, Mary ^e   Matheny Antommaria, Armand H ^e   Holzman, Ian R ^e   Katz, Aviva L ^e   Leuthner, Steven R ^e   Ross, Lainie F ^e   Webb, Sally A ^e   Baese, Philip L ^a   Levetown, Marcia ^b   Lyerly, Anne D ^c   Tsai, Ellen ^d   Berg, Jessica Wilen ^e   Baker, Alison ^e  

^a American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BOARD OF PEDIATRICS   (United States)

^c AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS   (United States)

^d CANADIAN PAEDIATRIC SOCIETY   (Canada)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Boundaries; Pediatricians; Relationships

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD CARE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GIFT GIVING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUALITY; ARTICLE; COMPENSATION; ETHICS; HUMAN RELATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 71949096165     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-2147     Document Type: Review

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