Paediatric Patient and Family-Centred Care Ethical and Legal Issues [Paperback]

This book?provides the reader with a theoretical and practical understanding?of?two health care delivery models:?the patient/child centred care and family-centred care. Both are fundamental to caring for children in healthcare organizations. The authors address?their application in a variety of paediatric healthcare contexts, as well as an understanding of legal and ethical issues they raise.?Each model is increasingly pursued as a vehicle for guiding the delivery of health care in the best interests of children. Such models of health care delivery shape health care policies, programs, facility design, resource allocation decisions and day-to-day interactions among patients, families, physicians and other health care professionals. To maximize the health and ethical benefits these models offer, there must be shared understanding of what the models entail, as well as the ethical and legal synergies and tensions they can create.?This book?is a valuable?resource for paediatricians, nurses, trainees, graduate students, practitioners of ethics and health policy.

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Introduction to Patient and Family-Centred Care.- Chapter 2: Paediatric Patient-Centred Care: Evidence and Evolution; David B. Nicholas, Krista Keiltyand Karima Karmali.- Chapter 3: A Canadian Perspective on a Childs Consent to Research Within a Context of Family-Centred Care: From Incompatibility to Synergy; Linda Sheahan, Michael Da Silva, Christine Czoli and Randi Zlotnik Shaul.- Chapter 4: Resource Allocation in Paediatric Patient and Family-Centred Care; Jennifer L. Gibson.- Part II: Legal, Ethical and Cultural Considerations.- Chapter 5: Culture, Religion and Family-Centred Care: Rani H. Srivastava.- Chapter 6: Ethical and Legal Issues in Patient and Family-Centred Care: Canadian First Nations, M?tis and Inuit People; Jl£Œ