The role of bioethics services in paediatric intensive care units: a qualitative descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is considerable variation in the functionality of bioethical services in different institutions and countries for children in hospital, despite new challenges due to increasing technology supports for children with serious illness and medical complexity. We aimed to understand how bioethics services address bioethical concerns that are increasingly encountered in paediatric intensive care.

Methods

A qualitative descriptive design was used to describe clinician's perspectives on the functionality of clinical bioethics services for paediatric intensive care units. Clinicians who were members of formal or informal clinical bioethics groups, or who were closely involved with the process of working through ethically challenging decisions, were interviewed. Interv

SUBMITTER: Alexander D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10877773 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature