The needs of healthcare personnel who provide home-based pediatric palliative care: a mixed method systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Families with children who have life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses often prefer to receive care at home to maintain a sense of normalcy. However, caring for children at home is different from caring for them in a hospital, and we do not know enough about the needs of healthcare personnel who provide home-based pediatric palliative care.

Aim

The aim of this review was to systematically summarize, appraise and synthesize available quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research to identify the needs of healthcare personnel in home-based pediatric palliative care.

Methods

We used the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for mixed method systematic reviews and searched systematically in Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Web of Science, AMED, and

SUBMITTER: Schroder J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10777650 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature