Paediatric patient and family-centred care
Subtitle: ethical and legal issues
By: Randi Zlotnik Shaul, editor
Series: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine -- volume 57; International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine -- v. 57.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781493903221; 9781493903238
Subjects: Patient-centered health care; Moral and ethical aspects; Law and legislation; Pediatrics; Adolescent; Legislation & jurisprudence; Patient-Centered Care; Philosophy; Child health services; Professional-Family Relations; Infant; Child; Medical ethics; Ethics
Description: 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 the ethical and legal 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to patient and family-centered care; title: Legal, ethical and cultural considerations; title: Implementation and lived experience; title: In context.