Paediatric Patient and Family-Centred Care: Ethical and Legal Issues (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781493903221)

This book provides the reader with a theoretical and practical understanding of two 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 address their 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 book is a valuable resource for paediatricians, nurses, trainees, graduate students, practitioners of ethics and health policy.

Author: Randi Zlotnik Shaul
ISBN-10: 1493903225
ISBN-13: 9781493903221
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2014
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d