Background: Palliative care for children and young people is a growing global health
concern with significant resource implications. Improved understanding of how palliative …

Abstract Background General practitioners (GPs) play a pivotal role in providing end-of-life
care in the community. Although they value end-of-life care, they have apprehensions about …

Pediatric end-of-life care (EOL care) entails challenging tasks for health care professionals
(HCPs). Little is known about HCPs' experiences and needs when providing pediatric EOL …

Introduction. In recent years the emergence of new types of patient, clinical situations,
technological frontiers and “health” objectives have changed considerably the needs of ill …

Background: Despite advances in medical technology, resources for pediatric palliative care
(PPC) for children with serious illnesses are limited in South Korea. Physicians' awareness …

Context Although a large percentage of children with advanced-stage cancer die at home,
remarkably little information is available regarding the experience of general practitioners …

Aims: This research aims to explore and to understand the meaning of children's comfort at
the end of their life for nurses. Setting and Design: The research applied descriptive …

General practitioners play a vital role in providing community-based palliative care to
patients reaching end of life. In order for GPs to upgrade their skills at end-of-life care …

Pediatric palliative care represents the ideal response to life-limiting and life-threatening
diseases and requires a specific and multidisciplinary training. This study aims at evaluating …

Objective The objective of this study was to measure the appropriateness of end-of-life care
for children who died with neurologic conditions. Study design Based on linked routinely …