Christopher L. Church

ORCID: 0009-0008-3905-9903
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Research Areas
  • Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Pharmaceutical studies and practices
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research

Baptist College of Health Sciences
2005-2015

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
2005-2015

Texas A&M Health Science Center
2015

Catholic Charities
2015

Duke University
2015

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2015

Health First
2015

Arkansas Children's Hospital
2015

Sydney Children's Hospital
2005

The viewpoint of the terminally ill child at time an end-of-life decision has not been formally investigated. We identified preferences children and adolescents with advanced cancer about their care factors that influenced decisions.Pediatric patients 10 or more years age were interviewed within 7 days participating in one following three decisions: enrollment onto a phase I trial (n = 7), adoption do resuscitate order 5), initiation terminal 8). patient, parent, primary pediatric oncologist...

10.1200/jco.2005.10.538 article EN Journal of Clinical Oncology 2005-09-20

There is little information about the content of ethics consultations (EC) in pediatrics. We sought to describe reasons for consultation and ethical principles addressed during EC pediatrics through retrospective review directed analysis records (2000–2011) at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Patient-based were highly complex often involved evaluation parental decision making, particularly consideration risks benefits a proposed medical intervention, physician's fiduciary...

10.1080/15265161.2015.1021965 article EN The American Journal of Bioethics 2015-05-04

Pediatric cancer represents 1% to 4% of all cancers worldwide, with the majority diagnoses in developing countries where mortality remains much higher than that high-income countries. We sought describe differences ethical decision-making at end life among an international sample pediatric oncologists practicing a variety income levels and resource settings.Pediatric subscribing educational oncology Web site were invited complete 38-item web-based survey investigating domains related...

10.1097/mph.0000000000000271 article EN Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 2015-04-18

Opportunities for practical, hospital-based training in those skills demanded by clinical ethics consultation (CEC) have been limited. Given the number of individuals who provide part-time CEC, greater access to condensed, practical such as immersion course offered Washington Hospital Center, is necessary. Two participants initial cohort evaluate their CE at a busy, urban referral center, exploring prior expectations, perceptions its utility and suggestions improvement. Such will prove...

10.1086/jce201223207 article EN The Journal of Clinical Ethics 2012-06-01

Reviewed by: Children in Medical Research: Access versus Protection Christopher Church and Raymond C. Barfield By Lainie Friedman Ross. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 285. $99. The three decades prior to the National Commission's 1977 report Research Involving witnessed infamous abuses of children used as subjects for medical research United States. Willowbrook hepatitis studies human radiation experiments conducted at Fernald state residential school illustrate special...

10.1353/pbm.0.0011 article EN Perspectives in biology and medicine 2008-03-01
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