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  1. Scarce healthcare resources and equity during COVID-19: Lessons from the history of kidney failure treatment

    Article • Kidney360, October 2021, American Society of Nephrology

    Aaron Wightman

  2. Caregiver burden in pediatric dialysis: application of the Paediatric Renal Caregiver Burden Scale

    Article • Pediatric Nephrology, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aaron Wightman

  3. Adding Life to Their Years: The Current State of Pediatric Palliative Care in CKD

    Article • Kidney360, June 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Taylor House, Aaron Wightman

  4. Race and Power at the Bedside: Counter Storytelling in Clinical Ethics Consultation

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Aaron Wightman

  5. An ethical analysis of obesity as a determinant of pediatric heart transplant candidacy

    Article • Pediatric Transplantation, November 2020, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  6. Pediatric kidney transplant in undocumented immigrants: An American perspectives

    Article • Pediatric Transplantation, July 2020, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  7. Ensuring Choice for People with Kidney Failure — Dialysis, Supportive Care, and Hope

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, July 2020, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Aaron Wightman

  8. Prioritizing Frontline Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Aaron Wightman

  9. Access to transplantation for persons with intellectual disability: Strategies for nondiscrimination

    Article • Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, January 2020, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  10. Moving Beyond Using the Term Poor Prognosis in Children With Severe Neurological Impairment

    Article • JAMA Pediatrics, January 2020, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Aaron Wightman

  11. Crowdsourcing in pediatric transplant studies—An opportunity for reflection on research ethics

    Article • Pediatric Transplantation, November 2019, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  12. Relationships help make life worth living

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, November 2019, BMJ

    Aaron Wightman

  13. Association of Food Insecurity and Acute Health Care Utilization in Children With End-stage Kidney Disease

    Article • JAMA Pediatrics, November 2019, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Aaron Wightman, Michelle Starr

  14. Caregiver burden in pediatric dialysis

    Article • Pediatric Nephrology, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aaron Wightman

  15. The Relational Potential Standard: Rethinking the Ethical Justification for Life-Sustaining Treatment for Children with Profound Cognitive Disabilities

    Article • The Hastings Center Report, May 2019, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  16. Parental Decision Making and the Limitations of the Equivalence Thesis

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Aaron Wightman

  17. Caregiver Experience in Pediatric Dialysis

    Article • PEDIATRICS, January 2019, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

    Aaron Wightman

  18. Health‐related quality of life changes following renal transplantation in children

    Article • Pediatric Transplantation, December 2018, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  19. How Should Refusal of Tracheostomy as Part of an Adolescent's Perioperative Planned Intubation Be Regarded?

    Article • The AMA Journal of Ethic, August 2018, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Aaron Wightman

  20. Fairness, severe intellectual disability, and the special case of transplantation

    Article • Pediatric Transplantation, May 2018, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  21. Fairly Allocating Space in an Immunotherapy Production Facility: Reply to Critics

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Aaron Wightman

  22. Ethical Guidance for Selecting Clinical Trials to Receive Limited Space in an Immunotherapy Production Facility

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Aaron Wightman

  23. Did parents have it right all along? Parents, risk, and living kidney donation: Revisiting the arguments for and against parental living donation of kidneys

    Article • Pediatric Transplantation, January 2018, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  24. Responding to parental requests for life-sustaining treatment - relational potential revisited

    Article • Acta Paediatrica, December 2017, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  25. Consideration of children with intellectual disability as candidates for solid organ transplantation-A practice in evolution

    Article • Pediatric Transplantation, December 2017, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  26. Reflections on a Question: “Would You Offer Dialysis?”

    Article • American Journal of Kidney Diseases, August 2017, Elsevier

    Aaron Wightman

  27. Controversy About Dialysis for an Adolescent

    Article • PEDIATRICS, June 2017, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

    Aaron Wightman

  28. From protection to entitlement: selecting research subjects for early phase clinical trials involving breakthrough therapies

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, April 2017, BMJ

    Aaron Wightman

  29. Withholding and Withdrawal of Dialysis

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aaron Wightman

  30. Is it permissible for a child with neurodevelopmental disabilities to be a living donor transplant candidate, but not a deceased donor candidate? Should donor source influence transplant center deliberations?

    Article • Pediatric Transplantation, December 2016, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  31. Management dilemmas in pediatric nephrology: time-limited trials of dialysis therapy

    Article • Pediatric Nephrology, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aaron Wightman

  32. Prevalence and outcomes of heart transplantation in children with intellectual disability

    Article • Pediatric Transplantation, November 2016, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  33. Prevalence and Outcomes of Liver Transplantation in Children With Intellectual Disability

    Article • Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, June 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Aaron Wightman

  34. Update on Ethical Issues in Pediatric Dialysis: Has Pediatric Dialysis Become Morally Obligatory?

    Article • Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, April 2016, American Society of Nephrology

    Aaron Wightman

  35. Neurodevelopmental Status as a Criterion for Solid Organ Transplant Eligibility

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aaron Wightman

  36. Should an Undocumented Immigrant Receive a Heart Transplant?

    Article • The AMA Journal of Ethic, October 2015, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Aaron Wightman

  37. Pediatric Nephrologists’ Beliefs Regarding Randomized Controlled Trials

    Article • Journal of Investigative Medicine, October 2015, BMJ

    Aaron Wightman

  38. Impact of Kidney Disease on Survival in Neonatal Extracorporeal Life Support

    Article • Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, July 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Aaron Wightman

  39. Has neonatal dialysis become morally obligatory? Lessons from baby doe

    Article • Acta Paediatrica, June 2015, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  40. Prevalence and outcomes of renal transplantation in children with intellectual disability

    Article • Pediatric Transplantation, August 2014, Wiley

    Aaron Wightman

  41. Who Should Get the Last PICU Bed?

    Article • PEDIATRICS, April 2014, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

    Aaron Wightman

  42. Pediatric Nephrologists’ Beliefs Regarding Randomized Controlled Trials

    Article • Journal of Investigative Medicine, January 2014, BMJ

    Aaron Wightman

  43. Washington State Pediatricians' Attitudes Toward Alternative Childhood Immunization Schedules

    Article • PEDIATRICS, November 2011, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

    Aaron Wightman

  44. Parental Protection of Extremely Low Birth Weight Children at Age 8 Years

    Article • Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, August 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Aaron Wightman