@article{Szewczyk_2010, title={Critical decisions in neonatology and the guidelines to be applied (in Polish)}, url={https://diametros.uj.edu.pl/diametros/article/view/417}, DOI={10.13153/diam.26.2010.417}, abstractNote={In the paper, after defining the necessary terms, I consider the following issues: 1. the process of bestowing the status of moral subjects on infants that started in the 1970s; 2. therapeutic strategies applied to these patients; 3. difficulties in classifying infants as critically ill patients; 4. problems in establishing a proxy to make decisions on their behalf; and 5. the criteria for such decisions, proposing a division of these guidelines into separative and integrative. The former serve to transfer the decision-making power to entities that are distinct from the whole health care system and fulfill directive and supervisory functions with respect to it; the latter combine in the decision process all of the components that are necessary to its operation - they decide what is in the best interests of the patient.}, number={26}, journal={Diametros}, author={Szewczyk, Kazimierz}, year={2010}, month={Dec.}, pages={96–135} }