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Paediatric Patient and Family-Centred Care: Ethical and Legal Issues

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Involving children and adolescents in research is a decision that may involves the family in addition to the individual child. Depending on whether an institution adopts a patient-centred or a family-centred approach to care, this can have an impact upon how ethical concerns in research such as recruitment, informed consent and protection of privacy are addressed. While there are general guidelines in place in Canada for the ethical conduct of research, these two approaches to care may provide us with some valuable insight to deal with ethical concerns regarding paediatric research.

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Walton, N. (2014). Participation in Paediatric Research Studies. In: Zlotnik Shaul, R. (eds) Paediatric Patient and Family-Centred Care: Ethical and Legal Issues. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 57. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0323-8_12

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