Alderson, Priscilla;
Bellsham‐Revell, Hannah;
King, Liz;
Vigneswaran, Trisha;
Wray, Jo;
(2023)
Children's ages of consent to non-urgent heart surgery: The views of two paediatric cardiology teams.
Children & Society
10.1111/chso.12717.
(In press).
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Abstract
Paediatric cardiology practitioners and related experts report unusually young ages when they begin to inform children about their non-urgent heart surgery and begin to respect children's consent or refusal. Research methods included observations in two paediatric cardiology units, audio-recorded interviews with 45 experts, and qualitative data analysis. Significantly younger ages were cited than are usually recommended in the clinical and legal literature. Interviewed practitioners took seriously children's consent to or refusal of a heart transplant from around 6 years, and a child's firm refusal of induction of anaesthesia from around 4 years, when surgery might be postponed.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Children's ages of consent to non-urgent heart surgery: The views of two paediatric cardiology teams |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/chso.12717 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12717 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. Children & Society published by National Children's Bureau and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | assent, capacity, competence, informed consent, resistance |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167157 |
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