After a child's death to cancer, families commonly want continued connection with the
healthcare team that cared for their child, yet bereavement follow‐up is often sporadic. A …

Background: There has been a breadth of research on the grief experience of parents
following the death of a child. However, the role and impact of hospital-based bereaved …

Objectives: To describe the health outcomes of bereaved parents and identify practical
strategies for critical care providers as they support and provide anticipatory guidance to …

Background Losing a child tragically impacts the well-being and functioning of parents. With
these effects extending beyond emotional, physical morbidity and compromising self …

Background: Communication skills and relational abilities are essential core competencies
that are associated with improved health outcomes, better patient adherence, fewer …

The pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a high-tech setting aimed at restoring health to
critically ill children. When childhood death occurs in the PICU, it constitutes a special …

BACKGROUND Bereaved parents experience significant psychosocial and health
sequelae, suggesting that this population may benefit from the ongoing extension of support …

Gaucher disease, the inherited deficiency of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase, is the most
common of the lysosomal storage disorders. Type 2 Gaucher disease, the most severe and …

Purpose: To describe parents' perspectives of health care provider actions that helped or did
not around the time of infant/child's intensive care unit (ICU) death. Semistructured …

Whether death occurs in the context of a chronic illness or as the sudden loss of a previously
healthy infant, child, or adolescent, the death of a child is a highly stressful and traumatic …