Settling for second best: when should doctors agree to parental demands for suboptimal medical treatment?
Background: Doctors sometimes encounter parents who object to prescribed treatment for their children, and request suboptimal substitutes be administered instead (suboptimal being defined as less effective and/or more expensive). Previous studies have focussed on parental refusal of treatment and wh...
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BMJ Publishing Group
2017
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