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| Title |
Why is it hard to make progress in assessing children’s decision-making competence?
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| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-16-1 |
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| Authors |
Irma M Hein, Pieter W Troost, Alice Broersma, Martine C de Vries, Joost G Daams, Ramón J L Lindauer |
| Abstract |
For decades, the discussion on children's competence to consent to medical issues has concentrated around normative concerns, with little progress in clinical practices. Decision-making competence is an important condition in the informed consent model. In pediatrics, clinicians need to strike a proper balance in order to both protect children's interests when they are not fully able to do so themselves and to respect their autonomy when they are. Children's competence to consent, however, is currently not assessed in a standardized way. Moreover, the correlation between competence to give informed consent and age in children has never been systematically investigated, nor do we know which factors exactly contribute to children's competence.This article aims at identifying these gaps in knowledge and suggests options for dealing with the obstacles in empirical research in order to advance policies and practices regarding children's medical decision-making competence. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 25% |
| Brazil | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 137 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 136 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 20 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 15% |
| Researcher | 12 | 9% |
| Other | 11 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 8% |
| Other | 37 | 27% |
| Unknown | 26 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 35 | 26% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 21 | 15% |
| Psychology | 19 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 7% |
| Arts and Humanities | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 19 | 14% |
| Unknown | 29 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 September 2022.
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#1,878,150
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#181
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#26,762
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#4
of 17 outputs
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