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Objectives * Identify innovative ways to incorporate highly trained bereaved parent volunteers into educational opportunities in palliative care for health care providers and staff. * Describe the process of implementation and content of palliative…

Children with medical complexity (CMC) are a subset of children and youth with special health care needs with high resource use and health care costs. Novel care delivery models in which care coordination and other services to CMC are provided are a…

Palliative care services in England lack data on the number of children with 'life limiting conditions' (LLCs). Recent research determined that the prevalence of LLCs in children in England was double previous estimates. We build on this by analysing…

Objectives * Identify three key elements that influence successful implementation of triggers for palliative care consultation within a NICU setting. * Recall the four major trigger domains that qualify for pediatric palliative care consultation…

Given the broad focus of pediatric palliative care (PPC) on the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of children with potentially life-limiting illnesses and their families, PPC research requires creative methodological approaches. This…

Background Prescription drug abuse is an epidemic in the US, leading to increased government oversight in opioid prescribing. The issue becomes more complicated when minor children are involved. One pediatric palliative care team found that of 62…

Objectives * Create a standardized criteria for pediatric palliative care consultation using a systemic approach. * Discuss the need of a formal Palliative consult to be discussed daily in interprofessional rounds. Background. The number of…

Objectives * Describe two benefits of a web-based educational tool for parents of children with serious illness and clinicians who care for them. * List three common themes explaining what is most important to parents of seriously ill children in…

Objectives * Establish the need for a caregiver intervention. * Introduce the intervention and its components. * Disseminating findings from the piloting of this intervention. Informal caregiving, or care provided by an unpaid individual to an adult…

Background: Children and adolescents dying from complex chronic conditions require paediatric palliative care. One aim of palliative care is to enable a home death if desired and well supported. However, there is little data to inform care,…

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BACKGROUND: Hopes of parents of children with serious illness play an important role in decision-making and coping. Little is known about how parent hopes change over time. We describe the changes in parent hopes across multiple domains and time…

Objectives * Discuss problems due to severe central nervous system impairment that can remain intractable to treatment options. * Define tipping points that can prompt anticipatory discussions, including suggested recommendations that best meet…

Objectives * Identify a simple, effective way to facilitate selfcare among hospital team members. * Describe the impact story time has had on the attendees' daily practice and self-care strategies. Background. Story time was born out of a photograph…

Introduction: Pediatric surgeons are often involved in the management of severely or terminally ill patients. However, articles addressing their specific roles in the context of palliative care are almost inexistent. We sought to characterize the…

Those in hospitals and health care systems, when designing clinical programs for children with medical complexity, often talk about needing to develop and implement a system of risk stratification. In this article, we use the framework of an ethical…

Objectives *Identify 3 barriers to the provision of care in rural areas for children with life-limiting illnesses and their families. *Describe 3 approaches to improving the provisions of care in rural areas for children with lifelimiting illnesses…

We intend to present a systematization of scientiic evidence about the emotional labour of nurses in the process of childcare in the end-of-life and their family. It was performed a literature search in the databases CINAHL, Medline, Psychology and…

Discourse about childhood chronic conditions has transitioned in the last decade from focusing primarily on broad groups of children with special health care needs to concentrating in large part on smaller groups of children with medical complexity…

Despite vast improvements in disease-based treatments, many children live with life-threatening disorders that cause distressing symptoms. These symptoms can be difficult to comprehensively assess and manage. Yet, frequent and accurate symptom…

Objectives *Explain the rationale for incorporating telemedicine into the care of palliative care patients and its associated benefits. *Describe common challenges, proven strategies, and best practice recommendations for successful and sustainable…
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