‘When no means no’ – adolescent right to refuse an elective surgical procedure: A case study
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Gillespie, Brigid M.
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At law, adults are presumed to have legal competency to provide consent for or refusal to consent to health care treatments unless they have cognitive impairment. But what of the adolescent who is, at law, a child but who refuses to undergo elective surgical treatment? This paper discusses the issues surrounding the case of Keith, a 14-year-old boy with ulcerative colitis, who refuses consent to undergo an elective ileostomy.
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Journal of Perioperative Nursing
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30
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© The Author(s) 2017. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gilbert, J; Gillespie, B.M., ‘When no means no’ – adolescent right to refuse an elective surgical procedure: A case study, Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 2017, 30 (2), pp. 33-36