Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?

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Navigating the Ethical Dilemmas of Youth Boarding in the Emergency Department: Strategies for Respecting Developing Autonomy While Also Reducing Risk

Adolescent Boarding in the ED: Issues of Autonomy, Nonmaleficence, and Distributive Justice

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author would like to thank Shannon Barnett, David Meyers, Rebecca Seltzer, Mackenzie Sommerhalder, and Alyssa Toran for their contribution to the case featured here, which was adapted with their permission from a case they presented at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Johns Hopkins Hospital Ethics Committee’s “Ethics for Lunch” seminar on September 19, 2023: Ready for Discharge, Nowhere to Go: The Challenges of Caring for Youth Boarding in the Hospital, available at https://bioethics.jhu.edu/events/ethics-for-lunch-ready-for-discharge-nowhere-to-go-the-challenges-of-caring-for-youth-boarding-in-the-hospital/.

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