Background Parents of children diagnosed with cancer may experience decision regret
about cancer treatment decisions and dissatisfaction with the perceived clarity in information …

Providing timely palliative and end-of-life care (PC/EOL) information to parents of children
with a serious illness is a national health care priority. The goals of this study were to …

Background: In this single-site study, we evaluated the feasibility of a parent-clinician
communication intervention designed to: identify parents' rationale for the phase I, do-not …

Background: The interaction of health care providers and hospital staff with patients and
families at the end of life affects the parental grief experience. Both verbal and nonverbal …

The ultimate aim of our research program is to provide strategies that facilitate parental
decision-making for parents of children with cancer receiving end-of-life care. As a first step …

ObjectivesClinicians and parents are encouraged to have open and honest communication
about end of life with children with cancer, yet there remains limited research in this area …

Parents of pediatric oncology patients are faced with difficult decisions when their child
reaches the end of life. For health care providers to provide optimal care, they must …

Participating in end-of-life decisions is life altering for adolescents with incurable cancer,
their families, and their healthcare providers. However, no empirically developed and …

Background: Professional education pertaining to end-of-life care with pediatric oncology
patients is limited. Pediatric trainees learn about end-of-life conversations largely from the …

Aim We explored physicians' experiences of communicating with families when their child
had cancer and a cure was no longer an option, by focusing on barriers and facilitating …