ReviewPatterns (New York, N.Y.)2022
Digital twins and the ethics of health decision-making concerning children.
Review in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Pediatrics 4.0: the Transformative Impacts of the Latest Industrial Revolution on Pediatrics.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2026Article
- Exploring the scope and applications of digital twin technologies in dentistry: a scoping review.Evidence-based dentistry · 2026Article
- Future-Making From Afar: Digital Twins in Medicine.Sociology of health & illness · 2026Article
- A survey on ethical digital twins in healthcare.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2026Review
- The ethical aspects of human organ-on-chip models: A mapping review.Stem cell reports · 2025Review
- Digital twins, synthetic patient data, and in-silico trials: can they empower paediatric clinical trials?The Lancet. Digital health · 2025Review
- Bytes the Dust: Normative Notions in Decommissioning Digital Doppelgängers.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2025Article
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Abstract
In this review, we explore from an ethical perspective the opportunities and challenges for decision-making concerning children if digital twins (DTs) were to be used to provide better information about their health status as a basis for proxy decision-making. We note a sense of urgency due to the speed of progress and implementation of this advancing technology and argue that bringing a solid conceptual basis into the development process is of utmost importance for the effective protection of children's rights and interests.
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