This integrative review aims to describe parents' perspectives on end-of-life care for their
children. Fifteen publications from a literature search of the Cochrane databases, CINAHL …

The care of critically ill neonates and pediatric patients can be particularly emotionally and
ethically challenging. Emerging evidence suggests that we can improve the patient, family …

Background Families' experiences in the hospital influence their decisions about donating
organs of brain-dead relatives. Meeting families' support needs during this traumatic time is …

Although the modern pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) has followed general pediatrics
and adopted the family-centered care model, little is known about how families prospectively …

Background: Organ donation research has centered on improving donation rates rather than
focusing on the experience and impact on substitute decision makers. The purpose of this …

More than 25,000 infants and children die in US hospitals annually; 86% occur in the NICU
or PICU. Parents see the child's pain and suffering and, near the point of death, must decide …

The care of chronically unconscious patients raises vexing medical, ethical, and social
questions concerning diagnosis, prognosis, communication with family members, and …

The organ donation and transplant process has, since it began in 1950, become a familiar
feature of our society. The World Transplant Registry, which is administered by Spain's …

Despite widespread acceptance in the United States of neurological criteria to determine
death, clinicians encounter families who object, often on religious grounds, to the …

Donation before circulatory death for imminently dying patients has been proposed to
address organ scarcity and harms of nondonation. To characterize stakeholder attitudes …