Making decisions to limit treatment in life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in children: a framework for practice

Arch Dis Child. 2015 May:100 Suppl 2:s3-23. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306666.

Authors

Vic Larcher¹, Finella Craig², Kiran Bhogal³, Dominic Wilkinson⁴, Joe Brierley⁵; Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Affiliations

¹ c/o Ethics and Law Advisory Committee RCPCH, London, UK.
² Louis Dundas Centre for Children's Palliative Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
³ Partner, Weightmans LLP, London, UK.
⁴ Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵ c/o Ethics and Law Advisory Committee RCPCH, London, UK Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

PMID: 25802250
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306666

No abstract available

Keywords: Ethics; Paediatric Practice.

Publication types

Practice Guideline
Review

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Child Advocacy / ethics
Child Advocacy / legislation & jurisprudence
Child, Preschool
Decision Making / ethics*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Pediatrics / ethics*
United Kingdom
United Nations
Withholding Treatment / ethics*