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CONTEXT: Limited data exists about care received by children with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) in the final years of their disease and end-of-life (EOL). OBJECTIVE(S): To examine hospital performance on EOL quality measures and to describe…
Pediatric palliative care (PPC) programs vary widely in structure, staffing, funding, and patient census, resulting in inconsistency in service provision. Improving the quality of palliative care for children living with serious illness and their…
Children with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) and their families deserve high-quality pediatric palliative care (PPC) throughout their illness trajectory, including at end of life (EOL). Standard EOL quality measures (QM) have only recently been…
While social workers are a well-established, part of the pediatric palliative care team, this manuscript presents the first published definition of the core competencies of a pediatric palliative care social worker. National experts in the field,…
