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

This bookprovides the reader with a theoretical and practical understandingoftwo 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 addresstheir application in a variety of paediatric healthcare contexts, as well as an understanding of legal and ethical 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 bookis a valuableresource for paediatricians, nurses, trainees, graduate students, practitioners of ethics and health policy.