What Constitutes the Best Interest of a Child? Views of Parents, Children, and Physicians in a Pediatric Oncology Setting

AJOB Primary Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1-10

  de Vries, Martine C ^a   Bresters, Dorine ^a   Kaspers, Gertjan J L ^b   Houtlosser, Mirjam ^a   Wit, Jan M ^a   Engberts, Dirk P ^a   van Leeuwen, Evert ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

best interests; medical ethics; pediatric oncology; professional autonomy; professional family relations; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876310331     PISSN: 21507716     EISSN: 21507724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21507716.2012.757254     Document Type: Article

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