Palliative Care Is Critical to the Changing Face of Child Mortality and Morbidity in the United States

Palliative Care Is Critical to the Changing Face of Child Mortality and Morbidity in the United States

Bogetz JF; Schroeder AR; Bergman DA; Cohen HJ; Sourkes B

Clinical Pediatrics

2014

child mortality

NO ABSTRACT PARAGRAPH 1: In hospitals around the nation, children with medical complexity (CMC) receive life-prolonging interventions for debilitating diseases. These children are alive because of disease-focused interventions including multiple medications, innovative procedures, durable medical equipment, and continuous care. Their lives depend on an intricate dance of family caregivers—along with health care providers—who must manage long-term illnesses in their homes and communities in the context of a health care system that is only beginning to address the challenges of complex chronic disease care for children.

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