Transparency in neonatal intensive care.
Medical teams care for severely premature infants under conditions of emergency and uncertainty that make parental involvement very difficult. Parents can be invited into a decisional relationship with the team that enables them to assess more fully the meaning of their child's illness.
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Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003142:Communication; D032882:Comprehension; D003657:Decision Making; D030881:Disclosure; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008960:Models, Psychological; D033282:Parental Consent; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D018570:Risk Assessment; D035501:Uncertainty; D028761:Withholding Treatment