Development of a Pediatric Palliative Care Curriculum and Dissemination Model: Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EPEC) Pediatrics.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Most children living and dying with serious illnesses experience high burden of distressing symptoms. Many seriously ill children and their families do not have access to subspecialist pediatric palliative care (PPC) services nor to clinicians trained in primary PPC. Lack of PPC education appears to be a significant barrier to PPC implementation.

Objectives

Description of the development and dissemination of Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EPEC)-Pediatrics.

Methods

Funded through a U.S. $1.6 million National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute grant 2010-2017, this 24-module curriculum was designed to teach primary palliative care. The target audience included interprofessional pediatric hematology/oncology providers and all other clin

SUBMITTER: Friedrichsdorf SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6754756 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature