Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: An International Perspective

Creator(s)

John Lantos, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Sarosh Saleem
Fajar Raza
Janicke Syltern
Erwin J. Khoo
Arpana Iyengar
Priya Pais
Jagdish Chinnappa
Pablo Lezama-Del Valle
Andre Kidszun

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

Abstract

In this article, we first review the development of clinical ethics in pediatrics in the United States. We report that, over the last 40 years, most children's hospitals have ethics committees but that those committees are rarely consulted. We speculate that the reasons for the paucity of ethics consults might be because ethical dilemmas are aired in other venues. The role of the ethics consultant, then, might be to shape the institutional climate and create safe spaces for the discussion of difficult and sometimes contentious issues. Finally, we report how pediatric clinical ethics has evolved differently in a number of other countries around the world.

Journal Title

J Clin Ethics

Volume

30

Issue

1

First Page

35

Last Page

45

Recommended Citation

Lantos JD, Saleem S, Raza F, et al. Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: An International Perspective. J Clin Ethics. 2019;30(1):35-45.