End of life care for infants with AIDS: ethical and legal issues.
Complex cases involving end-of-life care for infants with AIDS raise a variety of ethical and legal concerns. Health care providers should understand the issues involving proper treatment, including adequate relief of pain at the end of life, and a context for examining the suffering of caregivers.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000451:nursing*; D026686:Beneficence; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D036302:Therapeutic Human Experimentation; D014481:United States; D028761:Withholding Treatment