Asking about the guiding goal of care (GOC) offers health care professionals a perspective on how an individual patient or a family prioritizes health care decisions and is an essential component of shared-decision making. Listening to the patient…
Background: The diagnosis of a life-limiting condition of a child in the perinatal or neonatal period is a threat to parental hopes. Hope is an interactional and multidimensional construct, and in palliative care, it is a determinant of quality of…