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Transparency in Neonatal Intensive Care
Author(s) -
King Nancy M. P.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3563293
Subject(s) - transparency (behavior) , meaning (existential) , intensive care , nursing , psychology , medical emergency , medicine , intensive care medicine , psychotherapist , law , political science
Medical teams care for severely premature infants under conditions of emergency and uncertainty that make parental involvement very difficult. Parents can be invited into a decisional relationship with the team that enables them to assess more fully the meaning of their child's illness.