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• Title:Consent, rights, and choices in health care for children and young people / British Medical Association.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:British Medical Association.
  
• Published/Created:London : BMJ Books, 2001.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA33.FA1 C658 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Child care--Great Britain.
  Children--Health and hygiene--Great Britain.
  Children--Legal status, laws, etc.--Great Britain.
  Child health services--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
  
• Medical Subjects: Child Health Services--legislation & jurisprudence.
  Adolescent.
  Child.
  Child Welfare--legislation & jurisprudence.
  Ethics, Medical.
  Mental Health Services--legislation & jurisprudence.
  United Kingdom.
  
• Description:xxix, 266 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0727912283 (pbk.)
  9780727912282
  0727912283
  
• Contents:1. ethical approach to treating children and young people
  1.1. Focus of the book: children and young people
  1.2. Facets of established good practice
  1.3. Recognising minors' rights
  1.4. Consent to and refusal of treatment
  1.5. Criteria for valid decision making
  1.6. Involving minors in health care decisions
  2. law on children, consent and medical treatment: England, Wales and Northern Ireland
  2.1. When treatment can be given
  2.2. Consent from competent young people
  2.3. Consent from parents and people with parental responsibility
  2.4. Consent from carers
  2.5. Consent from the courts
  3. law on children, consent and medical treatment: Scotland
  3.1. When treatment can be given
  3.2. Consent from competent young people
  3.3. Consent from parents and people with parental responsibility
  3.4. Consent from carers
  3.5. Consent from the courts and children's hearings
  4. Confidentiality
  4.1. Patients' rights to confidentiality
  4.2. Health records
  4.3. Circumstances in which confidentiality may need to be breached
  4.4. Use of health information for purposes other than health care
  4.5. Visual and audio recordings
  5. Involving children and assessing a child's competence
  5.1. Defining competence
  5.2. Practical approach to assessing competence
  5.3. Growth in level of understanding
  5.4. Factors affecting competence
  5.5. Enhancing competence
  6. Refusal of treatment and decisions not to treat
  6.1. Refusal of treatment
  6.2. Withdrawing and withholding treatment
  7. Mental health care of children and young people
  7.1. Good practice
  7.2. patient population under consideration
  7.3. Consent and refusal of mental health care
  7.4. Overlapping legal frameworks for authorising mental health care
  7.5. Practical aspects of mental health care 7.6. Safeguards for particular medical treatments
  7.7. Timely access to services
  7.8. Appeals and complaints
  8. Sensitive or controversial procedures
  8.1. General ethical issues
  8.2. Live donation of organs and tissue
  8.3. Contraception, sterilisation, abortion and sexually transmitted disease
  8.4. Genetic testing
  8.5. Sensitive or controversial procedures required for legal reasons
  8.6. Ensuring best practice
  9. Research and innovative treatment
  9.1. Ethical issues in research
  9.2. Types of research
  9.3. Consent and refusal
  9.4. Safeguards
  9.5. boundary between treatment and research
  9.6. Innovative treatment
  10. Health care in schools
  10.1. School health services
  10.2. Confidentiality
  10.3. Consent
  10.4. Medicines
  10.5. Drug misuse
  11. Summary of good practice
  11.1. Decision making, information sharing, the child and the family
  11.2. Competence and maturity in children and young people
  11.3. Promoting benefit, avoiding harm: the "best interests" criterion
  11.4. Circumstances where dilemmas arise
  11.5. Withdrawing and withholding treatment
  11.6. Confidentiality and control of information
  11.7. Mental disorder
  11.8. Research and sensitive or innovative procedures. App. 1. Examination or assessment for child protection purposes.