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Bioethics and Law (Pediatrics)

Mature Minors

Treatment decisions regarding infants, children and adolescents. [Les décisions de traitement au nom des nourrissons, des enfants et des adolescents.] [English, French] (opens new window)

Albersheim S, Arbour L, Byrne P, Harrison C, Laxer R, Magwood B, Tolkin J, Tsai E; for the Bioethics Committee, Canadian Paediatric Society.

Source‎: Paediatr Child Health 2004;9(2):99-114.

Indexed‎: PubMed 19654990

DOI‎: 10.1093/pch/9.2.99

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19654990 (opens new window)

DSCL v. Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (Colombian Institute of Family Welfare) (opens new window)

Constitutional Court of Colombia

Source‎: Judgement T-083/21, Reference: File T-7.970.593, 7 April 2021, The Seventh Review Chamber of the Constitutional Court, par. 196.

https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/Relatoria/2021/T-083-21.htm (opens new window)

Major surgery in an osteosarcoma patient refusing blood transfusion: case report. (opens new window)

Dhanoa A, Singh VA, Shanmugam R, Rajendram R.

Source‎: World J Surg Oncol 2010;8:96.

Indexed‎: PubMed 21059231

DOI‎: 10.1186/1477-7819-8-96

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21059231 (opens new window)

Transfusion Alternative Health Care—Meeting Patient Needs and Rights. (opens new window)

Guillod O, Harding TW, Keyserlingk EW, McLean SAM, Weissauer W, et al.

Source‎: Brooklyn, NY (USA); Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania: 2002.

https://www.pr418.com/en/medical-library/videos/blood-transfusion-patient-needs-rights/ (opens new window)

Bioethics for clinicians: 9. Involving children in medical decisions. (opens new window)

Harrison C, Kenny NP, Sidarous M, Rowell M.

Source‎: CMAJ 1997;156(6):825-8.

Indexed‎: PubMed 9084389

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9084389 (opens new window)

Religious practice, blood transfusion, and major medical procedures. (opens new window)

Hivey S, Pace N, Garside JP, Wolf AR.

Source‎: Paediatr Anaesth 2009;19(10):934-46.

Indexed‎: PubMed 19754485

DOI‎: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2009.03139.x

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19754485 (opens new window)

Medical ethics, transfusion, and the standard of practice. (opens new window)

Kipnis K.

Source‎: In: Spiess BD, Spence RK, Shander A, eds. Perioperative Transfusion Medicine. Second edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2006. p. 45-51.

Indexed‎: ISBN 0-7817-3755-9

https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62123297?chap=4 (opens new window)

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Subjects include: Clinical strategies for managing hemorrhage and anemia without blood transfusion, the religious and ethical position of Jehovah’s Witnesses on medical therapy, and the services Witnesses offer to the medical community through their worldwide network of Hospital Liaison Committees.

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Treatment options as well as medical and ethical considerations for clinicians who treat Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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Interview of Luca P. Weltert, M.D.

“There has been a distinct shift toward less transfusions—and not just in regard to Witness patients, of course, but all over the world—because there is increasing evidence that reduced transfusions means a better outcome.”