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Parental involvement in neonatal critical care decision-making
journal contribution
posted on 2016-05-05, 11:24 authored by Chloe Shaw, Elizabeth Stokoe, Katie Gallagher, Narendra Aladangady, Neil MarlowThe paper analyses the decision-making process between doctors and parents of babies in neonatal intensive care. In particular, it focuses on cases in which the decision concerns the redirection of care from full intensive care to palliative care at the end of life. Thirty one families were recruited from a neonatal intensive care unit in England and their formal interactions with the doctor recorded. The conversations were transcribed and analysed using conversation analysis. Analysis focused on sequences in which decisions about the redirection of care were initiated and progressed. Two distinct communicative approaches to decision-making were used by doctors: ‘making recommendations’ and ‘providing options.’ Different trajectories for parental involvement in decision-making were afforded by each design, as well as differences in terms of the alignments, or conflicts, between doctors and parents. ‘Making recommendations’ led to misalignment and reduced opportunities for questions and collaboration; ‘providing options’ led to an aligned approach with opportunities for questions and fuller participation in the decision-making process. The findings are discussed in the context of clinical uncertainty, moral responsibility and the implications for medical communication training and guidance
Funding
Funding: National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Programme Development Grant RG-DG-0611-10006
History
Published in
Sociology of Health and IllnessVolume
38Issue
8Citation
SHAW, C. ... et al, 2016. Parental involvement in neonatal critical care decision-making. Sociology of Health and Illness, 38 (8), pp. 1217-1242.Publisher
© WileyVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-04-07Publication date
2016-09-25Notes
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: SHAW, C. ... et al, 2016. Parental involvement in neonatal critical care decision-making. Sociology of Health and Illness, 38 (8), pp. 1217-1242, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12455. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.ISSN
0141-9889Publisher version
Language
- en