A 1999–2000 national study of US hospitals raised concerns about ethics consultation (EC)
practices and catalyzed improvement efforts. To assess how practices have changed since …

This is a qualitative examination of ethics consultation requests, outcomes, and ethics
committee recommendations at a tertiary/quaternary pediatric hospital in the US The …

There is little information about the content of ethics consultations (EC) in pediatrics. We
sought to describe the reasons for consultation and ethical principles addressed during EC …

In clinical ethics consultations, clinical ethicists bring moral reasoning to bear on concrete
and complex clinical ethical problems by undertaking ethical deliberation in collaboration …

Introduction Classifying the ethical issues in clinical ethics consultations is important to
clinical practice and scholarship. We conducted a systematic review to characterize the …

Paediatric decision-making is the art of respecting the interests of child and family with due
regard for evidence, values and beliefs, reconciled using two important but potentially …

As the field of clinical ethics consultation sets standards and moves forward with the Quality
Attestation process, questions should be raised about what ethical issues really do arise in …

BACKGROUND: Pediatric ethics consultations are important but understudied, with little
known about consultations' contextual attributes, which may influence how ethically …

In most children's hospitals, there are very few ethics consultations, even though there are
many ethically complex cases. We hypothesize that the reason for this may be that hospitals …

Background/objectives Ethical challenges in pediatric oncology arise at every stage of
illness. However, there are sparse data on the content of and reason for ethics consultations …