Services and treatment for disabled infants; model guidelines for health care providers to establish infant care review committees--HHS

Abstract

These are model guidelines to encourage the establishment within health care facilities, especially facilities with tertiary level neonatal care units, of committees for the purposes of educating hospital personnel and families of disabled infants with life-threatening conditions, recommending institutional policies and guidelines concerning the withholding of medically indicated treatment (including appropriate nutrition, hydration, and medication) from such infants, and offering counsel and review in cases involving disabled infants with life-threatening conditions. The publication of these model guidelines is required by section 124(b) of the Child Abuse Amendments of 1984, Pub. L. 98-457.