Browse Items · Pediatric Palliative Care Library

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

Provider-Prioritized Domains of Quality in Pediatric Home-Based Hospice and Palliative Care: A Study of the Ohio Pediatric Palliative Care and End-of-Life Network

BACKGROUND: Children receiving hospice and palliative care (HPC) differ from adults in important ways. Children are more likely to have rare diagnoses, less likely to have cancer, have longer lengths of stay on hospice, and are more likely to be…

Tags: 2017, Domains, Grossoehme D, Home-based Hospice And Palliative Care, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Mark MSJ, November 2017 List, Pediatric Palliative Care, Quality, Thienprayoon R

Reframing US Maternity Care: Lessons Learned From End-of-Life Care

Grief reactions of couples to perinatal loss: a one-year prospective follow-up

BACKGROUND: Perinatal losses are traumatic events in the lives of families and can have serious long-term consequences for the psychological health of parents and any subsequent children. DESIGN: A prospective follow-up study. METHODS: We recruited,…

Tags: 2017, Chen YP, Cheng HR, Cheng PT, Gee, Grief, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Marital Relationship, Miscarriage, November 2017 List, Parents, Perinatal Loss, Social Support, Stillbirth, Tseng YF, Yang SF

Palliative Care

Cancer is a leading cause of death in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) Wiener et al. (Pediatr Blood Cancer 60(5):715-718, 2013). Though most AYAs will survive, cancer will become incurable in 10-40 % Schrijvers and Meijnder (Cancer Treat Rev…

Tags: 103-90-2 (paracetamol), 1095-90-5 (methadone), 125-56-4 (methadone), 12794-10-4 (benzodiazepine), 137-58-6 (lidocaine), 2017, 23142-53-2 (methadone), 24847-67-4 (lidocaine), 297-88-1 (methadone), 437-38-7 (fentanyl), 53663-61-9 (opiate), 56934-02-2 (lidocaine), 60142-96-3 (gabapentin), 73-78-9 (lidocaine), 76-99-3 (methadone), 8002-76-4 (opiate), 8008-60-4 (opiate), Acute Stress Disorder, Alcohol Consumption, Anticonvulsive Agent, Appetite, Benzodiazepine, Brill P, Connelly E, Corticosteroid, Distress Syndrome, Dyspnea, Fentanyl, Gabapentin, Hair Loss, Health Care Personnel, Health Care System, Hospital, Howk T, Human, Intensive Care Unit, Lidocaine, Major Depression, Medical Staff, Methadone, Mortality, Nausea And Vomiting, Neoplasm, November 2017 List, Obesity, Opiate, Palliative Therapy, Paracetamol, Paralysis, Patient Care Planning, Pediatric Oncology, Pillai R, Postovsky S, Priority Journal, Prostaglandin/ec [endogenous Compound], Quality Of Life, Tracheostomy, Wasilewski-Masker K, Wrammert KC

Guidance on forgoing life-sustaining medical treatment

Pediatric health care is practiced with the goal of promoting the best interests of the child. Treatment generally is rendered under a presumption in favor of sustaining life. However, in some circumstances, the balance of benefits and burdens to the…

Tags: 2017, Apparent Life Threatening Event/th [therapy], Article, Awareness, Boss RD, Caregiver, Carter BS, Child Abuse, Child Care, Christian CW, Clinical Decision Making, Comatose Patient, Consensus, Consultation, Critical Illness/th [therapy], Davies D, Death, Death By Neurologic Criteria, Dell ML, Developmental Disorder/th [therapy], Diekema DS, Disease Burden, Disease Course, Elster N, Ethical Decision Making, Extremely Low Gestational Age, Family Decision Making, Family Stress, Feudtner C, Flaherty EG, Fortson BL, Foster Care, Gavril AR, Gestational Age, Goal Attainment, Guinn-Jones M, Hauer JM, Health Belief, High Risk Population, Human, Humphrey LM, Hurley TP, Hydration, Idzerda SM, Imaizumi S, Imminent Death, Informed Consent, Intensive Care, Interpersonal Communication, Katz AL, Klick J, Klipstein S, Laskey A, Laventhal N, Legal Aspect, Legano LA, Leventhal JM, Life-sustaining Medical Treatment, Linebarger JS, Lord B, MacAuley RC, MacMillan H, Medical Ethics, Medical Expert, Medical Information, Medical Procedures, Medical Specialist, Medically Administered Nutrition And Hydration, Moon MR, Neglect, Neurologic Disease/di [diagnosis], November 2017 List, Nutrition, Okun AL, Opel DJ, Oxygenation, Pain/th [therapy], Palliative Therapy, Parker S, Patient Care Planning, Pediatrician, Pediatrics, Practice Guideline, Priority Journal, Prognosis, Quality Of Life, Resuscitation, Rivera F, shared decision making, Social Support, Spiritual Care, Statter MB, Stedt E, Survival, Teamwork, Terminal Care, Tissue Perfusion, Uncertain Prognosis, Weise KL

Pediatric Ethics and Communication Excellence (PEACE) Rounds: Decreasing Moral Distress and Patient Length of Stay in the PICU

This paper describes a practice innovation: the addition of formal weekly discussions of patients with prolonged PICU stay to reduce healthcare providers' moral distress and decrease length of stay for patients with life-threatening illnesses. We…

Browse Items (47 total)