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Perceived barriers to paediatric palliative care in a Palestinian children's hospital

Abstract Background: This study aimed to identify barriers to paediatric palliative care provision at one Palestinian paediatric hospital, elucidate reasons for the barriers, provide recommendations for enhancing care and identify topics for future…

Tags: 2025, Adult, Arabs, Attitude Of Health Personnel, Child, Cross-sectional Studies, Female, Ghareeb G, Health Services Accessibility, Hospitals Pediatric, Humans, International Journal of Palliative Nursing, Kelly D, Male, March List 2025, Middle Aged, Palliative Care, Qualitative Research, Surveys And Questionnaires

Pediatric palliative care in children and young people with non-oncological diseases: a scoping review

Background: Pediatric palliative care (CPP) is defined as active and holistic care of the child's body, mind and spirit, actively supporting the centrality and role of the family. They have as their primary objective the improvement of the quality of…

Care, connection, and social distancing: The challenges of baby loss during the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand

Problem: The COVID-19 pandemic hindered access to routine healthcare globally, prompting concerns about possible increases in pregnancy loss and perinatal death. Background: PUDDLES is an international collaboration exploring the impact of the…

A Review of Parental Bereavement Interventions: Implications for Clinical

The untimely death of a child is an incredibly traumatic experience for parents and their loved ones. It uproots every aspect of their life, leading the bereaved parents to be far more likely to have poorer physical and mental health outcomes. This…

Enhancing Quality of Life in Pediatric Palliative Care: Insights, Challenges, and Future Directions—A Systematic Review

Pediatric palliative care (PPC) programs are essential in encompassing not only the affected children but also their family system and the healthcare and educational professionals involved. Despite the field’s significance, there is a notable…

Setting-up a Supportive and Palliative Care Service for Children with Life-threatening Illnesses in Maharashtra -- Children's Palliative Care Project in India

Objectives: To describe the key initiatives that were successful in planning and implementing hospital- and community-based Paediatric Palliative Care (PPC) services designed for a resource-limited setting in Maharashtra, India, in collaboration with…

The need of patients living with cancer for palliative care

Background: A comprehensive assessment of patients' problems and needs is

What are virtual wards and how do they work?: primary care nursing roles are being reinvented as virtual ward and hospital at home services evolve

Virtual wards are expanding in many parts of the UK, with the aim of allowing patients to get the care they need at home, rather than in hospital.

Health Professionals' Views on Pediatric Palliative Care: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review

Introduction: Providing care for children in the end of life entails special challenges and exceptional requirements for all health professionals involved. Aim: The aim of the study is to explore the views of health professionals about pediatric…

Challenges in the Provision of Pediatric Palliative Care in Mexico: A Cross-Sectional Web-Based Survey

Objective: An enormous need for pediatric palliative care (PPC) has been reported, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, the access to PPC is limited. This study identifies the current challenges in the provision of PPC and…

Tags: 2021, 2022 Special Edition Low Resource Setting Issue, Gruneberg ES, Health Services Accessibility, Journal Of Palliative Care, low- and middle-income countries, Pastrana T, Pediatric Palliative Care, Ramos-Guerrero J

Parent Perspectives During Hospital Readmissions for Children With Medical Complexity: A Qualitative Study

OBJECTIVES: Children with medical complexity (CMC) have high readmission rates, but relatively little is known from the parent perspective regarding care experiences surrounding and factors contributing to readmissions. We aimed to elicit parent…

Enhancing paediatric palliative care: A rapid review to inform continued development of care for children with life-limiting conditions

AIM: Following the establishment of paediatric palliative care services over recent decades, this study sought to identify information to inform future policy and practice. METHODS: A rapid review using thematic synthesis was conducted to synthesise…

State Variation in Posthospital Home Nursing for Commercially Insured Medically Complex Children

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Home nursing is essential for children with medical complexity (CMC), but provision varies substantially across states. Our objectives were to quantify state-to-state variability in distribution of posthospitalization home…

Palliative care in the neonatal intensive care unit

With increasing facilities for antenatal diagnosis, lowering gestation for intiation of intensive care, palliative care in the perinatal period is increasingly recognized as a specialist area. There have been standards and pathways developed in the…

Tags: 2020, Health Services Accessibility, Home Health Care, Hospice Care, Intensive Care Units, Jackson C, June 2020 List, Multidisciplinary Care Team, Neonatal, Paediatrics & Child Health, Palliative Care, Pediatricians, Perinatal Care, Perinatal Death – Psychosocial Factors, Prenatal Diagnosis, psychosocial, Support, United Kingdom, Vasudevan C

End-of-Life Care for Hispanic Children: A Study of California Medicaid Beneficiaries

INTRODUCTION: More than 8,000 Hispanic children die annually in the United States; yet little is known about the end-of-life care utilized. The purpose of this study was to examine the children and family characteristics associated with end-of-life…

Self-Assessment of Skills and Competencies among Residents Participating in a Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Elective Rotation

OBJECTIVE: To describe our institutional experience with a four-week pediatric HPM elective rotation and its impact on residents' self-rated competencies. BACKGROUND: In the spirit of bolstering primary hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) skills of…

Assessment of the need for palliative care for children in South Africa

UNICEF and the International Children's Palliative Care Network undertook a joint analysis in three sub-Saharan countries-Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Kenya-to estimate the palliative care need among their children and to explore these countries'…

Mental Health Services for Parents Who Lost a Child to Cancer: If We Build Them, Will They Come?

PURPOSE: To examine bereavement mental health service use, barriers to use, and factors associated with use in parents bereaved by cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A multicenter, cross-sectional study of 120 parents bereaved by cancer between 6 months…

Exploring the experiences and perspectives of families using a children's hospice and professionals providing hospice care to identify future research priorities for children's hospice care

The main objective of this study is to generate a list of priority topics for children's hospice care research in Scotland from the perspective of its key stakeholders. The method consists of qualitative semi-structured interviews with families using…

Transition care for young people with chronic illness

Young people with a chronic illness or disability originating in childhood ultimately need transition to adult care. The process of leaving a familiar paediatric service and effectively engaging in appropriate adult health care can be challenging and…

Palliative care for infants, children, adolescents, and their families

Factors influencing death at home in terminally ill patients with cancer: systematic review

OBJECTIVES: To determine the relative influence of different factors on place of death in patients with cancer. DATA SOURCES: Four electronic databases-Medline (1966-2004), PsycINFO (1972-2004), CINAHL (1982-2004), and ASSIA (1987-2004); previous…

Palliative care in children in Wales: a study of provision and need

2005

Tags: (2) referrals to the specialist palliative medicine service based in Cardiff, 2005, Backlog, Child, Hain RD, Health Services Accessibility, Health Services Needs and Demand Hospice Care/, Journal Article, Palliative Medicine, PedPal Lit, Preschool Female, statistics & numerical data Humans Male Needs Assessment Palliative Care/, statistics & numerical data Questionnaires Referral and Consultation Wales

Palliative care for children and young people: a community paediatric nursing perspective

Community children's nursing services are well placed to provide palliative care for children and young people living with life-limiting conditions. The provision of home support can make a real difference to the quality of life for these families.…

Tags: 2006, Adolescent, Backlog, Child, Community Health Nursing, Health Services Accessibility, Humans, International Journal of Palliative Nursing, Journal Article, Maunder EZ, Palliative Care, Pediatric Nursing, Quality Of Life

Social work and end-of-life care: reviewing the past and moving forward

This paper reviews the professional literature with respect to the social work profession's involvement in end-of-life care. The search process was conducted by entering key words in various combinations to electronic databases. Eligible articles…

Tags: 2005, Altruism, Attitudes, Backlog, Brandsen CK, Clinical Competence, Health Knowledge, Health Services Accessibility, Humans, Interdisciplinary Communication, Journal Article, Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, Practice, Social Work/education/organization & administration, Terminal Care/organization & Administration

Distance from home when death occurs: a population-based study of Washington State, 1989-2002

OBJECTIVE: For patients who die in hospitals, the regionalization of tertiary health care services may be increasing the home-to-hospital distance, particularly for younger patients whose care is especially regionalized and for whom access to and use…

Rare essentials: drugs for rare diseases as essential medicines

Since 1977, the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EML), published by WHO, has provided advice for Member States that struggle to decide which pharmaceutical technologies should be provided to patients within their public health systems.…

Survival rates of children with severe neurologic disabilities: a review

Knowledge of accurate survival rates of children with neurologic disabilities is important for third-party insurance payers planning future medical expenses. This is of particular importance to pediatric skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) that depend…

Tags: 2003, Backlog, Bias (Epidemiology), Child, Disabled Children, Health Services Accessibility, Humans, Journal Article, Nervous System Diseases/mortality, Nutritional Failure, Plioplys AV, Seminars In Pediatric Neurology, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Survival Rate, United States/epidemiology

Managing end-of-life care: comparing the experiences of terminally Ill patients in managed care and fee for service

There have been no published empirical studies comparing the experiences of terminally ill patients in managed care organizations (MCOs) and those in fee for service (FFS). This investigation represents the first empirical study to systematically…

Frequency and determinants of formal respite service use among caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in Ontario

OBJECTIVE: To describe the use of formal respite services among caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in Ontario and discuss the factors that may contribute to respite use and non-use. METHODS: A total of 468 caregivers were interviewed about…

Seeing the Same Doctor: Determinants of Satisfaction with Specialty Care for Disabled Children

Learning to care for people with chronic illness facing the end of life

2000

Tags: 2000, Backlog, Death and Euthanasia, Health Services Accessibility, Health Services Research, JAMA, Journal Article, Lynn J, Palliative Care/economics/standards/trends, Policy Making, Professional Patient Relationship, Quality Of Health Care, RDF Project, Terminal Care/economics/standards/trends, United States

Gender-specific factors in the utilization of medical services during adolescence

Although adolescents suffer from a variety of complaints, they do not often consult a doctor. Following a high rate of medical consultation during infancy and childhood, the rate dramatically decreases at the age of 10 and increases again around the…

Adolescent girls' and boys' preferences for provider gender and confidentiality in their health care

PURPOSE: To assess the influence of demographic variables and health risk status on adolescents' preferences and actual receipt of services regarding provider gender, sharing a physician with parents, and private examinations. METHODS: Data from…

Contextual influences on school provision of health services

PURPOSE: To examine contextual factors that may facilitate or impede the provision of school health services. METHODS: Using a composite database derived primarily from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we used logistic regression…

We need to attract more students to palliative care

A good palliative care service is responsive, available to families where they want it, provided round the clock, and co-ordinated by a lead healthcare professional or team. This is the view of one hospice director of care in response to a draft good…

Tags: 2016, August 2017 List, Choice, Health Services Accessibility, Hospice And Palliative Care Nursing, Humans Personnel Selection, Nursing Children and Young People, Students Nursing, Terminal Care/manpower, Walker C

A Pilot Study Of The Effectiveness Of Home Teleconsultations In Paediatric Palliative Care

We conducted a pilot study to investigate the effectiveness of a home telehealth service for paediatric palliative care consultations. Over a 10 week period, 14 of the 17 caregivers approached to be part of the study agreed to participate. Families…

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