Background Because of practice variation and new developments in palliative pediatric
care, the Dutch Association of Pediatrics decided to develop the clinical practice guideline …

Shared decision-making (SDM) is a process in which health care professionals (HCPs)
involve parents and children-when appropriate-to decide together on future treatment …

Background Provision of paediatric palliative care for children with life-threatening or life-
limiting conditions and their families is often complex. Guidelines can support professionals …

Background Pediatric shared decision-making (SDM) is a fundamental part of family-
centered care. Pediatric palliative care (PPC) is one of the more difficult fields for healthcare …

Objective: Palliative care for children is becoming an important subspecialty of healthcare.
Although concurrent administration of curative and palliative care is recommended, timely …

Shared decision-making (SDM) with parents and adolescents is normative in pediatric
practice in North America. In this article we discuss how it is applicable to the practice of …

Background With paediatric patients, deciding whether to withhold/withdraw life-sustaining
treatments (LST) at the end of life is difficult and ethically sensitive. Little is understood about …

Background: Decisions about medical indication are a relevant problem in pediatrics.
Difficulties arise from the high prognostic uncertainty, the decisional incapacity of many …

Background A national clinical practice guideline for pediatric palliative care was published
in 2013. So far there are only few reports available on whether an educational program …

Purpose/Objectives: The purpose of this article was to highlight the lack of communication
skills pediatric practitioners have when delivering bad news and introducing pediatric …