Ethical considerations for paediatrics during the COVID-19 pandemic: A discussion paper from the Australian Paediatric Clinical Ethics Collaboration

Affiliations

• ¹ Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ² Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ³ Department of Oncology, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ⁴ Centre for Children's Health Ethics and Law, Children's Health Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ⁵ Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁶ Children's Bioethics Centre, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁷ Departments of Endocrinology & Oncology, Children's Health Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ⁸ Clinical Ethics, Sydney Children's Hospital Network, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ⁹ Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹⁰ School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States.
• ¹¹ Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ¹² Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹³ Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹⁴ Paediatric Critical Care, Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
• ¹⁵ School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.