Advance care planning and the parental geographical background in pediatric palliative home care: a retrospective chart review.

ABSTRACT: The relevance to acknowledge the parental migration history in pediatric palliative care is widely recognized. However, its influence on integral parts of advance care planning (ACP) is unknown. In this non-interventional cohort study, we aimed at identifying systematic differences between pediatric palliative patients with varying parental countries of origin regarding medical orders for life-sustaining treatment and the location of patients' death. Two hundred eighty-eight pediatric cases in an ambulant pediatric palliative care setting in Germany were retrospectively analyzed using multinomial logistic regression models. Agreements on medical orders for life-sustaining treatment (MOLST) differed significantly between patients with varying parental countries of origin. Full code orders f

SUBMITTER: Dinkelbach L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9192398 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature