Establishing psychosocial palliative care standards for children and adolescents with cancer and their families: An integrative review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite standardization in disease assessments and curative interventions for childhood cancer, palliative assessments and psychosocial interventions remain diverse and disparate.

Aim

Identify current approaches to palliative care in the pediatric oncology setting to inform development of comprehensive psychosocial palliative care standards for pediatric and adolescent patients with cancer and their families. Analyze barriers to implementation and enabling factors.

Design

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines framed the search strategy and reporting. Data analysis followed integrative review methodology.

Data sources

Four databases were searched in May 2014 with date restrictions from 2000 to 2014: PubMed, Coch

SUBMITTER: Weaver MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4624613 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature