PEDIATRICS Vol. 60 No. 4 October 1977, pp. 588-599
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Ethical Issues in Pediatric Surgery: A National Survey of Pediatricians and Pediatric Surgeons

Anthony Shaw M.D.1, Judson G. Randolph M.D.1, and Barbara Manard Ph.D.1

1 Division of Pediatric Surgery in the Department of Surgery, and the Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the Department of Surgery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

The findings reported in this article are based on a nationwide survey of the attitudes and practices of pediatric surgeons and pediatricians with respect to some of the difficult ethical choices confronting them in medical practice.

Four hundred fifty-seven physicians completed a questionnaire in the spring of 1975 in which they reacted to a wide range of issues that have been of increasing concern to the public, as well as to the medical profession. The survey attempts to identify some areas of physician consensus as well as some of the factors, personal and professional, influencing physicians' attitudes.

The survey and its statistical analysis are intended to provide current sociological data and are not intended by the authors as an endorsement of any particular point of view or course of action.

Submitted on October 7, 1976
Accepted on October 22, 1976




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