The ethics of crowdfunding in paediatric neurology.
Angus Livingstone, Laurent Servais, Dominic J C Wilkinson
PMID 36271489WHAT IT FOUND
No clinical outcomes are reported.
This ethics review explains why families crowdfund paediatric neurological treatments and outlines privacy, consent, cost, equity, and donor risks.
What this paper is
This is an ethics review of medical crowdfunding in paediatric neurology. It discusses reasons families crowdfund, possible costs, privacy and consent concerns, donor risks, equity effects, and suggestions for clinicians and platforms. It does not report methods, patients, outcomes, or tested interventions, so there is no clinical finding here to change your practice.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat this review as evidence that crowdfunding improves or harms neurological outcomes. It reports no patient outcomes or tested interventions.