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Medical decision-making in paediatrics: Infancy to adolescence

Canadian Paediatric SocietyPediatrics2018Official publication

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Official Canadian Paediatric Society document (2018) on “Medical decision-making in paediatrics: Infancy to adolescence”. Medical decision-making in the paediatric population is complicated by the wide variation in physical and psychological development that occurs as children progress from infancy to adolescence. Parents and legal guardians are the de facto decision-makers in early infancy, but thereafter, the roles of parents/legal guardians and paediatric patients become ever more complex. Health care providers (HCPs), while not deci.

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