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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 3.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Treat Res. 2010;156:429–445. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6518-9_33

Table 33.1.

Steps for ensuring a child has enough information needed to give rational consent (adapted from Foreman [1, 4])

  1. Inform the child of what will happen if nothing is done

  2. Describe the intervention

  3. Explain how this intervention will improve the situation

  4. Ask the child whether or not he or she agrees that this intervention produces a better outcome than the alternative – doing nothing

  5. Seeking the child’s consent to initiate the intervention