1. Introduction
2. The effectiveness of the best interests principle
3. Non-uniformity in clinical guidelines
4. The role, impact and importance of key care givers and decision makers
5. Theories of distributive justice : healthcare and resource allocation for extremely premature and critically impaired infants
6. Resource allocation : an objective approach in end of life decision making for extremely premature and critically impaired infants
7. Other observations and concluding remarks.