Improving Intensive End-of-Life Care for Infants and Children: A Scoping Review of Intervention Elements.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

High-quality pediatric critical care includes supporting children nearing the end-of-life (EOL) and their families. Cataloging existing interventions for children dying in the neonatal or pediatric intensive care unit (NICU, PICU) establishes critical areas for future research. In this scoping review, we evaluated characteristics of PICU EOL interventions.

Methods

A librarian guided a search of OVID Medline, CINAHL, OVID PsycINFO, OVID Embase, Cochrane Central, and Web of Science, plus backwards and forwards reference searching. We included interprofessional interventions, defined as any systematic change (e.g., educational programs, symptom management, electronic medical record, etc.), for children dying from any cause. Studies were independently scree

SUBMITTER: Broden Arciprete EG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12651015 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature