id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-011280-o4ssggit Cummings, Brian M. A review of approaches for resolving disputes between physicians and families on end-of-life care for newborns 2020-05-11 .txt text/plain 3165 162 56 HCA [1], George Annas, the NEJM legal analyst, observed, "One bioethical issue is as intractable today as 30 years ago when the topic was first publicly discussed: the extent of parental authority to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment for an extremely premature infant" [2] . It is now agreed within the bioethical and medical communities in the United States that where the risk of mortality is significant and the prospect of benefit to an infant is suffused in ambiguity and uncertainty, the decision on whether or not to initiate treatment belongs to the parents. The changes in standards and norms on medical decisionmaking are observable in the different approaches to decision-making on end-of-life cases in British and American courts [17] . From the provider perspective, investigators recently interviewed physicians in pediatric and neonatal intensive care concerning end-of-life decision-making. In an earlier article, we provided a case of an experienced neonatologist who successfully utilized shared decision-making to resolve a potential conflict between the NICU staff and the family [26] . ./cache/cord-011280-o4ssggit.txt ./txt/cord-011280-o4ssggit.txt