1. [The first Danish paediatric ethical committee].
- Author
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Uldall P, Andersen M, Greisen G, Hansen BH, Kofoed EH, Knox JB, Nabe-Nielsen H, Petersen G, Ploug T, and Sehested A
- Subjects
- Denmark, Hospitals, Humans, Ethics Committees, Clinical, Pediatrics ethics
- Abstract
We report the experiences from the first two years of a paediatric ethical committee at Rigshospitalet. The committee consists of five clinicians (nurses and doctors) and five non-clinicians. Themes of the sixteen reported case were: genetic testing, life-sustaining treatment ("when is enough enough?"), non-consensus between the parents and health personal and between different health personal, controversies to different religious wishes and to optimizing resources of the department versus individual care of a critically ill child. Within paediatrics a need for ethical reflection seems obvious.
- Published
- 2015