Clinician Emotions Surrounding Pediatric Oncology Patient Deterioration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pediatric oncology patients have a high rate of clinical deterioration frequently requiring critical care. Patient deterioration events are distressing for clinicians, but little is known about how Pediatric Early Warning Systems (PEWS) impact clinicians' emotional responses to deterioration events.

Methods

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 83 nurses, pediatricians, oncologists, and intensive care clinicians who had recently participated in a patient deterioration event at two pediatric oncology hospitals of different resource-levels: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (N = 42 participants) in Memphis, Tennessee or Unidad Nacional de Oncología Pediátrica (N = 41 participants) in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Interviews were conducted in the participan

SUBMITTER: Graetz DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7947818 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature