Pediatric palliative care in Canada in 2012: a cross-sectional descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pediatric palliative care focuses on comprehensive symptom management and enhancing quality of life for children with life-threatening conditions and their families. Our aim was to describe Canadian programs that provided specialized pediatric palliative care in 2012 and the children who received it and to estimate the proportion of children who might benefit that received specialized care.

Methods

A cross-sectional descriptive design was used. Specialized pediatric palliative care programs were included in the study if they offered multidisciplinary consulting pediatric palliative care services to a wide range of children and served all populations of children with life-threatening illness regardless of diagnosis. Investigators in programs that had taken part in

SUBMITTER: Widger K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5173480 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature