title: Medical missions to Ghana: The ethics of choosing children for cardiac surgery.
abstract: The Hearts and Minds of Ghana project travels from Boston Children's Hospital for two weeks each year to provide cardiac surgery to children in Ghana. Of the hundreds of children in need, how to choose who will receive lifesaving surgery?
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Center for Bioethics, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 USA. christine_mitchell@hms.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mitchell
mesh_terms: D001900:Boston; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000941:ethics; D002648:Child; D003657:Decision Making / Q000941:ethics; D005869:Ghana; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000941:ethics; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008493:Medical Missions / Q000941:ethics; D018579:Patient Selection / Q000941:ethics*