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Comparing parent loss with sibling loss

The death of a loved one is a traumatic loss for children, but little attention has been paid to how children's responses vary according to who died--a parent or a sibling. This article reports the findings of a comparison between children's…

Exploring the Supportive Care Model as a framework for pediatric palliative care

2009

Tags: 2009, Backlog, Davies B, Journal Article, Journal Of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, Oberle K, Steele R, Widger K

Pediatric patients receiving palliative care in Canada: results of a multicenter review

OBJECTIVES: To describe the patients who received care from the 8 dedicated pediatric palliative care programs in Canada in 2002 and to estimate the number of children who may have benefited but did not receive services from these programs. DESIGN:…

Chemotherapy-related fatigue in childhood cancer: correlates, consequences, and coping strategies

The aim of this research is to examine the experience and impact of chemotherapy-related fatigue in recently diagnosed pediatric oncology patients. A repeated-measures, within-subjects, mixed (quantitative plus qualitative) design was used to…

Tags: 2008, Adaptation, Antineoplastic Agents/adverse effects, Backlog, Child, Davies B, Fatigue/chemically induced, Friedman D, Gudmundsdottir M, Humans, Journal Article, Journal Of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, McCarthy P, Neoplasms/drug therapy/psychology, Parents, Psychological, Questionnaires, Whitsett SF

A paediatric palliative care programme in development: trends in referral and location of death

Purpose To describe the formation of a paediatric palliative care programme providing care in hospital, at home or in hospice, ensuring continuity of care where the child and family desire. Study design Descriptive analysis was performed on referral…

Tags: 2010, Archives of Disease in Childhood, Backlog, Coulombe L, Johnston DL, Journal Article, Location Of Death, Rattray M, Splinter WM, Vadeboncoeur C

Trends in Pediatric Palliative Care 2017; Issue #11

This commentary brings together perspectives from an interdisciplinary group of researchers –five trainees, a research manager, and a senior scientist –who share an interest in the emergent field of childhood ethics and pediatric palliative…

Tags: Macdonald ME, November 2017 List

Paediatric palliative care research in Canada: Development and progress of a new emerging team

Paediatric palliative care is a field distinct from adult palliative care, although there are many overlaps in language, approach and philosophy. Several features, however, distinguish paediatric palliative care. The illnesses that affect children…

Tags: 2008, Cadell S, Davies B, Paediatrics & Child Health, Siden H, Steele R, Straatman L

Research priorities in pediatric palliative care: a delphi study

Pediatric palliative care is increasingly recognized to be a specialized type of care requiring specific skills and knowledge, yet, as found in several countries, there is little available research evidence on which to base care. Objectives: The goal…

Families' transition to a Canadian paediatric hospice. Part one: planning a pilot study

This article describes the rationale for planning and conducting a qualitative pilot study about families' transition to a Canadian paediatric hospice. Discussion includes: background information and a literature review pertinent to the study; debate…

Families' transition to a Canadian paediatric hospice. Part two: results of a pilot study

The results from a pilot study are reported in this article, part two of a two-part paper. The experiences of parents (six mothers and two fathers) are described as their families transitioned to the Canuck Place Children's Hospice (CPHC) in Canada.…

Families' transition to a Canadian paediatric hospice. Part one: planning a pilot study

This article describes the rationale for planning and conducting a qualitative pilot study about families' transition to a Canadian paediatric hospice. Discussion includes: background information and a literature review pertinent to the study; debate…

Tags: 2008, Cadell S, Canada, Child, Davies B, Derman S, Health Planning, Health Services Needs And Demand, Hospices/organization & administration, Humans, International Journal of Palliative Nursing, Palliative Care, Pediatrics, Pilot Projects, Siden H, Steele R, Straatman L

Impact on parents when a child has a progressive, life-threatening illness.

Children with neurodegenerative, life-threatening illnesses (NLTIs) account for a significant proportion of children requiring palliative care, yet there is a lack of of research that examines families' experiences. This grounded theory study…

Tags: 2006, Backlog, Child, Davies B, Disease Progression, Humans, International Journal of Palliative Nursing, Journal Article, Longitudinal Studies, Palliative Care, Parent-child Relations, Pediatrics, Steele R

Do we have the power to create our own future as oncology nurses?

2005

Tags: 2005, Backlog, Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal, Female, Humans, Journal Article, Leadership, Male, Nurse's Role, Nursing, Nursing/psychology, Oncologic Nursing, Power (psychology), Sex Factors, Societies, Steele R, Students

Experiences of families in which a child has a prolonged terminal illness: modifying factors.

A significant proportion of children requiring palliative care have neurodegenerative life-threatening illnesses (NLTIs). While most of their care is provided at home by their families over many years, there is a paucity of research examining…

Tags: 2002, Backlog, Child, Communication, Family, Female, Humans, International Journal of Palliative Nursing, Journal Article, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Neurodegenerative Diseases/nursing, Non-U.S. Gov't, Parents/psychology, Research Support, Steele R, Terminal Care/psychology

A report of four cases of acute, severe pulmonary hemorrhage in infancy and support with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Introduction
Pulmonary hemorrhage is an uncommon event in infants. It has been described most commonly in the sick premature neonate, older child, or adolescent with chronic cardiopulmonary disease. Acute idiopathic pulmonary hemorrhage in…

Tags: 1994, Acute Disease, Artificial, Backlog, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, Female, Hemorrhage/complications/therapy, Humans, Infant, Journal Article, Lung Diseases/complications/therapy, Male, Moler FW, Pediatric Pulmonology, Respiration, Respiratory Insufficiency/etiology/therapy, Sanders GM, Severity Of Illness Index, Siden HB

The emerging issue of euthanasia

2005

Tags: 2005, Adolescent, Archives Of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Backlog, Child, Decision Making, Euthanasia, Humans, Infant, Journal Article, Longitudinal Studies, Netherlands, Newborn, Pediatrics/statistics & numerical data, Preschool, Siden HB, Terminal Care

A qualitative approach to community and provider needs assessment in a telehealth project

OBJECTIVE: Needs assessment is a critical part of the design and implementation of telehealth projects. This study assessed the need for a telehealth link between a local community and a tertiary-care medical center. METHODS: The assessment was…

Tags: 1998, Backlog, British Columbia, Focus Groups, Humans, Journal Article, Needs Assessment, Non-U.S. Gov't, Program Development, Remote Consultation, Research Support, Siden HB, Telemedicine, Telemedicine Journal : The Official Journal Of The American Telemedicine Association

Telehealth: connecting with families to promote health and healing

Telehealth is defined as the provision of health care via telecommunications wherever individuals are geographically separated. In this literature review, we explore the role of telehealth in family care. Telehealth has not been fully examined for…

Tags: 2001, Backlog, Family, home care services, Journal Article, Journal Of Family Nursing, Siden H, Starr E, Telemedicine, Tredwell S, Young L

Pediatric Enteral Feeding Intolerance: A New Prognosticator For Children With Life-limiting Illness?

Tags: 2009, Child, Child Preschool, Cox K, Derman S, Enteral Nutrition/ Adverse Effects, Female, Hartnett C, Humans, Infant, Journal Of Palliative Care, Male, Pediatric Enteral Feeding Intolerance: A New Prognosticator For Children With Life-limiting Illness?, Prognosis, Siden H, Soon GS, Straatman L, Terminal Care/ Methods, Tucker T

The Madison Clinic: Evaluation Of A Collaborative Outpatient Paediatric Palliative Care Clinic

BACKGROUND: A multidisciplinary outpatient clinic at a tertiary care children's hospital supported and staffed by a children's hospice was created to enhance and expand the inpatient palliative care services available to families of children with…

Tags: 2009, Ambulatory Care Facilities, Continuity Of Patient Care, Ham J, Miller T, Paediatrics, Paediatrics & Child Health, Palliative Care, Siden H, Straatman L, The Madison Clinic: Evaluation Of A Collaborative Outpatient Paediatric Palliative Care Clinic

Designing and implementing a longitudinal study of children with neurological, genetic or metabolic conditions: charting the territory

BACKGROUND: Children with progressive metabolic, neurological, or chromosomal conditions and their families anticipate an unknown lifespan, endure unstable and often painful symptoms, and cope with erratic emotional and spiritual crises as the…

Nutritional failure and cachexia in a pediatric palliative care population.

2006

Tags: 2006, Backlog, Cox K, Journal Article, Journal Of Investigative Medicine, Longitudinal Studies, NET CV, Siden H, Soon G, Straatman L

Pain management for children with a developmental disability in a primary care setting

Tags: 2008, Book/Book Section, Oberlander T, Pain In Children: A Practical Guide For Primary Care, RDF Project, Siden H

High dose opioids in pediatric palliative care.

A Report On Location of Death in Paediatric Palliative Care Between Home, Hospice and Hospital

This retrospective study analysed data for 703 children who died from 2000 to 2006 to examine where children with a broad range of progressive, life-limiting illnesses actually die when families are able to access hospital, paediatric hospice…

Haloperidol as a palliative anti-emetic in a toddler: an evidence base challenge

2008

Tags: 2008, Antiemetics, Backlog, Evidence-based Medicine, Fatal Outcome, Haloperidol, Humans, Infant, Journal Article, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Male, Nausea, Palliative Care, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Siden H

The boy who refused an IV: a case report of subcutaneous clodronate for bone pain in a child with Ewing Sarcoma

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Bone pain in malignancy can be challenging to treat. Bisphosphonates have been found to be useful in adults with bone pain, but there are no reports of their use in children for this indication. In pediatric palliative medicine…

Tags: 2007, Backlog, Journal Article, Journal Of Medical Case Reports, Longitudinal Studies, Siden H

The integration of religious traditions in Japanese children's view of death and afterlife

2007

Tags: 2007, Backlog, Davies B, Death studies, Journal Article, Sagara-Rosemeyer M

The relationship between grief adjustment and continuing bonds for parents who have lost a child

This article presents findings from a study on the impact of a child's death on parents. We explored the prominence and adaptiveness of parents' continuing bonds expressions, psychological adjustment, and grief reactions. A qualitative case study…

Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada. Chapter 7

2002

Tags: 2002, Backlog, Journal Article, PPC Book Chapter 2011 (Kim Widger), Romanow R, Widger K

Perceptions of control and long-term recovery from rape

The relationship between perceptions of control and symptoms of both long-term depression and post-traumatic stress was examined. Enduring beliefs of personal competence and control were found to be associated with lower rates of depression and…

Addressing ethical concerns regarding pediatric palliative care research

2009

Tags: 2009, Archives Of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Backlog, Decision Making, Ethics, Humans, Journal Article, Palliative Care/ethics, Pediatrics/ethics, Rapoport A, Research, United States

Sublingual atropine drops for the treatment of pediatric sialorrhea

Excess oral secretions or sialorrhea is a common problem affecting children and adults with neurological disorders, as well as those approaching the end of life because of a variety of underlying illnesses. Systemic anticholinergic medications are…

Tags: 2010, Backlog, Journal Article, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Rapoport A

A place to die: The case for paediatric inpatient hospices

2008

Tags: 2008, Backlog, Journal Article, Paediatrics & Child Health, PPC Book Chapter 2011 (Kim Widger), Rapoport A

Timing is everything: The experience of parental cancer for young adult daughters-a pilot study

2008

Tags: 2008, Backlog, Cadell S, Journal Article, Journal Of Psychological Oncology, Puterman J

End of life in pediatric oncology: how clinical practice leads to research

In pediatric oncology nursing, and across practice disciplines in general, clinical research serves as the cornerstone for improving patient care. Historically, advances made in the care and cure of childhood cancer have stemmed directly from…

Tags: 2002, Biomedical Research, Child, Davies B, Evidence-based Medicine, Humans, Journal Of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, Oncology 2017 List, Oncology Nursing/td [trends], Pediatrics/td [trends], Pritchard M, Research Design

Librarian involvement in systematic reviews was associated with higher quality of reported search methods: a cross-sectional survey of authors from Vancouver, BC

Objectives
Systematic reviews (SRs) are considered the gold standard of evidence, but many published SRs are of poor quality. This study identifies how librarian involvement in SRs is associated with quality-reported methods and examines the lack of…

Efficacy and safety of paediatric medicinal cannabis use: A scoping review

INTRODUCTION: The use of medicinal cannabis in the paediatric age group is increasing despite the lack of evidence for its efficacy or safety. OBJECTIVE: To map the available evidence on the efficacy and safety of medicinal cannabis in children and…

Tags: 2021, Cannabidiol, Cannabis, Chau B, Drug-resistant epilepsy, McKellar T, Medicinal Cannabis, Medicinal marijuana, Paediatrics And Child Health, Pawliuk C, Rassekh SR, Scoping review, Siden H, Tetrahydrocannabinoid

Optimising the process for conducting scoping reviews

Knowledge synthesis constitutes a key part of evidence-based medicine and a scoping review is a type of knowledge synthesis that maps the breadth of literature on a topic. Conducting a scoping review is resource intensive and, as a result, it can be…

Tags: 2021, BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, Brown HL, Dewan T, Evidence-based Medicine, Grégoire MC, Hermansen AM, Humans, information science, Pawliuk C, Publications, Q3 Scoping Review, Research Design, Siden H, Steele R, Widger K

A Comparative Cost-minimization Analysis Of Providing Paediatric Palliative Respite Care Before And After The Opening Of Services At A Paediatric Hospice

A palliative care service provider may add or decrease overall operational costs to the healthcare system. This study assessed the costs of managing respite care for children with life-limiting illness at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario…

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