Intercontinental differences in end-of-life attitudes in the pediatric intensive care unit: results of a worldwide survey

DJ Devictor, P Tissieres, J Gillis… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To examine intercontinental differences in end-of-life practices in pediatric
intensive care units. Design: An international survey. The on-line questionnaire consisted of …

Forgoing life support: how the decision is made in European pediatric intensive care units

DJ Devictor, JM Latour, Eurydice II Study Group - Intensive care medicine, 2011 - Springer
Purpose To determine how decisions to forgo life support are made in European pediatric
intensive care units (PICUs). Methods A multicenter, prospective study, the Eurydice II study …

Forgoing life-sustaining treatments in children: a comparison between Northern and Southern European pediatric intensive care units

DJ Devictor, DT Nguyen - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: This study was conducted to determine how the decision-making process to
forgo life support differs between southern and northern European pediatric intensive care …

[HTML][HTML] End-of-Life decision-making in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units in Croatia—a focus group study among nurses and physicians

F Rubic, M Curkovic, L Brajkovic, B Nevajdic, M Novak… - Medicina, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background and Objectives: Working in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units (ICUs)
can be challenging and differs from work in adult ICUs. This study investigated for the first …

Comparison of end-of-life care practices between children with complex chronic conditions and neonates dying in an ICU versus non-ICUs: a substudy of the pediatric …

AS Ramelet, E Bergstraesser… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To describe and compare characteristics of care provided at the end of life for
children with chronic complex conditions and neonates who died in an ICU with those who …

Medical end-of-life decisions: experiences and attitudes of Belgian pediatric intensive care nurses

E Inghelbrecht, J Bilsen, H Pereth, J Ramet… - American Journal of …, 2009 - AACN
Objective To investigate Belgian pediatric intensive care nurses' involvement in and
attitudes toward medical end-of-life decisions with a possible or certain life-shortening effect …

End-of-life decision-making and satisfaction with care: parental perspectives

KL Meert, CS Thurston, AP Sarnaik - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2000 - journals.lww.com
Objectives To evaluate parents' perceptions of the process by which decisions are made to
limit or withdraw life support from critically ill children, and to evaluate parents' perceptions of …

End-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit: attitudes and practices of pediatric critical care physicians and nurses

JP Burns, C Mitchell, JL Griffith, RD Truog - Critical care medicine, 2001 - journals.lww.com
End-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit: Attit... : Critical Care Medicine End-of-life
care in the pediatric intensive care unit: Attitudes and practices of pediatric critical care …

Defining a “good death” in the pediatric intensive care unit

EG Broden, J Deatrick, C Ulrich, MAQ Curley - American Journal of Critical …, 2020 - AACN
Background Societal attitudes about end-of-life events are at odds with how, where, and
when children die. In addition, parents' ideas about what constitutes a “good death” in a …

Parental experiences of end of life care decision-making for children with life-limiting conditions in the paediatric intensive care unit: a qualitative interview study

S Mitchell, JL Spry, E Hill, J Coad, J Dale, A Plunkett - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To provide an in-depth insight into the experience and perceptions of bereaved
parents who have experienced end of life care decision-making for children with life-limiting …