Child maltreatment and end-of-life care independently represent two of the most emotion-
laden and uncomfortable aspects of pediatric patient care. Their overlap can be uniquely …

Pediatric palliative care, including end-of-life care, remains a relatively new area of
interdisciplinary clinical practice and research. Improving the multifaceted and complex care …

In modern society, we expect parents to outlive their children. Childhood death is a difficult
reality, in part, because it defies the expected order of life events, challenging basic …

DISCUSSION Personal characteristics and values always influence the integration of
information, an unavoidable form of bias. The impact of this bias, however, may not be …

WE ARE RIDING on the crest of mi-raculous advances in the diagno-sis and treatment of
numerous diseases and debilitating conditions. Pediatric health care providers are caught …

Most pediatric clinicians aspire to promote the physical, emotional, and developmental well-
being of children, hoping to bestow a long and healthy life. Yet, some infants, children, and …

Few tasks in pediatrics are as challenging as caring for children with lifethreatening or
terminal conditions. This challenge, unfolding over the course of a particular child's care …

Objectives The aim of this study was to gain a greater understanding of communicating with
children about parental terminal illness from the perspective of the surviving parents …

Context Concerns for child maltreatment can complicate the provision of pediatric palliative
care (PPC). Little is known about the vulnerable population of children with life-threatening …

Suffering is a ubiquitous yet elusive concept in health care. In a field devoted to the pursuit of
objective data, suffering is a phenomenon with deep ties to subjective experience, moral …