Barriers to Pediatric Palliative Care: Trainee and Faculty Perspectives Across Two Academic Centers.

ABSTRACT: Objective: Barriers to palliative care for children with serious illness include system constraints and vastly different training and attitudes toward palliative care. This study aimed to explore trainee and faculty physician perceptions of barriers to palliative care across two pediatric centers to (1) examine differences between trainees and faculty and (2) compare these data with previous studies. Methods: A mixed-methods study was conducted in fall 2021 among pediatric trainees and faculty physicians at three pediatric hospitals in two pediatric centers in the western United States. Surveys were distributed through hospital listservs and analyzed descriptively and through inductive thematic analysis. Results: There were a total of 268 participa

SUBMITTER: Levine A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10623063 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature