title: [High technology in a family perspective].
abstract: High technology medicine poses high demands for knowledge and technical competence. In addition, the hospital is expected to represent a model for total care where the "customers" also include family members, eg. parents and children. Both economic and human resources are needed in order to avoid negative after-effects and complications for both patient and family. High technology medicine also raises difficult ethical questions: How much decision-making should be left to parents? These problems are illustrated by clinical examples, and hospital-based ethical committees are suggested as a structure for the further efforts to improve ethical competency at the hospital and to find appropriate solutions for patients and their families in both the long and the short term.
authors.affiliation: Barne- og ungdomspsykiatrisk seksjon, Rikshospitalet, Oslo.
authors.forename: I H
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Vandvik
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D003657:Decision Making; D017041:Ethics Committees; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D009664:Norway; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012944:Social Support
vernacular_title: Høyteknologisk medisin i et familieperspektiv.