Abstract
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.
MeSH terms
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / nursing*
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Beneficence
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Ethics, Nursing*
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Pediatric Nursing / legislation & jurisprudence
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Pediatric Nursing / standards*
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Stress, Psychological
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Terminal Care / legislation & jurisprudence
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Terminal Care / standards*
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Therapeutic Human Experimentation
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United States
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Withholding Treatment