Palliative care for children: methodology for the development of a national clinical practice guideline.

ABSTRACT:

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 to deliver high quality care. Stakeholders expressed the need to update the first Dutch paediatric palliative care guideline with new scientific literature and new topics. This paper provides an overview of the methodology that is used for the revision of the Dutch paediatric palliative care guideline and a brief presentation of the identified evidence.

Methods

The revised paediatric palliative care guideline was developed with a multidisciplinary guideline panel of 72 experts in paediatric palliative care and nine (bereaved) parents of children with life-threatening or life-limiting condit

SUBMITTER: van Teunenbroek KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10691037 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature