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 …

ObjectivesThis umbrella review will summarize palliative and end-of-life care practices in
peri-intensive care settings by reviewing systematic reviews in intensive care unit (ICU) …

Several recent French studies have revealed that 40% of death in pediatric intensive care
units are associated with withdrawal or limitation of life saving treatments. Because such …

Objective: To investigate clinical and demographic factors affecting the nature of end-of-life
decisions and pediatric palliative care. Design: Charts of 236 expired children were …

Clinicians frequently worry that medications used to treat pain and suffering at the end of life
might also hasten death. Intentionally hastening death, or euthanasia, is neither legal nor …

Background: Providing care for children at the end-of-life is challenging and distressing for
nurses and healthcare professionals. It is important to identify matters that might be a barrier …

Conditions of dying in a tertiary children's hospital were assessed in a retrospective cohort
study. Non-survivors, excluding newborns and emergency room patients, were allocated to …

Background: Families and clinicians must often weigh competing priorities when making
medical decisions for a pediatric patient at the end of life. Few empirical data exist regarding …

End-of-life decisions are often taken in neonatology, based on widely accepted guidelines,
to avoiding futile therapies. Usually, the criteria upon which these guidelines rely are …

Aim To comparing attitudes towards end‐of‐life (EOL) decisions in newborn infants between
seven European countries. Methods One paediatrician and one lawyer from seven E …