Policy statement - Physician refusal to provide information or treatment on the basis of claims of conscience

Pediatrics

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1689-1693

  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

Conscience; Conscientious objection; Cooperation

Indexed keywords

CONSCIENCE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MORALITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHICS; FEMALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PEDIATRICS; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CONSCIENCE; CONTRACEPTION, POSTCOITAL; DUTY TO WARN; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; ETHICS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PREGNANCY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REFUSAL TO TREAT; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71949104691     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-2222     Document Type: Review

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