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- Karen Moody, Linda Siegel, Kathryn Scharbach, Leslie Cunningham, and Rabbi Mollie Cantor.
- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, 3415 Bainbridge Avenue, 111 East 210th Street, Rosenthal 3, Bronx, NY 10463, USA. kmoody@montefiore.org
- Prim. Care. 2011 Jun 1;38(2):327-61, ix.
AbstractProgress in pediatric palliative care has gained momentum, but there remain significant barriers to the appropriate provision of palliative care to ill and dying children, including the lack of properly trained health care professionals, resources to finance such care, and scientific research, as well as a continued cultural denial of death in children. This article reviews the epidemiology of pediatric palliative care, special communication concerns, decision making, ethical and legal considerations, symptom assessment and management, psychosocial issues, provision of care across settings, end-of-life care, and bereavement. Educational and supportive resources for health care practitioners and families, respectively, are included.Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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