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. 2006 Nov-Dec;36(6):25-34.
doi: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0000.

Children's competence to consent to medical treatment

Priscilla Alderson  1 , Katy Sutcliffe, Katherine Curtis
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Children's competence to consent to medical treatment

Priscilla Alderson et al. Hastings Cent Rep. 2006 Nov-Dec.

Abstract

As a study involving diabetes care demonstrates, children sometimes have a much more sophisticated capacity for taking charge of their own health care decisions than is usually recognized in bioethics. Protecting these children from their disease means involving them in their treatment as much as possible, helping them to understand it and take responsibility for it so that they can navigate the multitude of daily decisions that become part of the diabetes medical regimen.

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