Paediatric Palliative Care
Paediatric palliative care by video consultation at home: a cost minimisation analysis
... Methods: A cost minimisation analysis was undertaken to compare the actual costs of the HTP consultations, with the estimated potential costs associated with face-to face-consultations occurring by either i) hospital ...
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Who needs and continues to need paediatric palliative care? An evaluation of utility and feasibility of the Paediatric Palliative Screening scale (PaPaS)
... While ethos and approaches are similar, the scope of work in adult and paediatric palliative care can differ [8]. In contrast to most life-threatening illness such as can- cers in the adult-setting, ...
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Health-related quality-of-life outcome measures in paediatric palliative care: A systematic review of psychometric properties and feasibility of use
... in paediatric palliative ...receiving palliative care and some domains within disease- specific measures are only relevant for that specific ...
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Home telehealth and paediatric palliative care: clinician perceptions of what is stopping us?
... A visual ‘tag cloud’ representation of the frequency with which words were used in the interviews is pre- sented in Figure 2 (See tag cloud). Words with higher frequency count are in larger text. This visual represen- ...
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Paediatric palliative care: recommendations for treatment of symptoms in the Netherlands
... of palliative care to children [3]. In paediatric palliative care greater attention should be given to symp- tom control and the overall wellbeing to lessen the suf- fering of children ...
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Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a paediatric palliative care team
... Paediatric palliative care (PPC) can improve the quality of life of children with life-limiting or life-threatening diseases and their families ...providing palliative care and lack of ...
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An Exploration of the Dilemmas Encountered by Staff Working in Paediatric Palliative Care
... in paediatric palliative care services are likely to be under considerable stress and anxiety as a result of having to deal with particular difficulties arising from caring for dying children and ...
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Specialist paediatric palliative care services : what are the benefits?
... Palliative care for CYP has been defined as “an active and total approach to care, from the point of diagnosis or recognition, embracing physical, emotional, social and spiritual elements through to ...
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Access to paediatric palliative care in children and adolescents with complex chronic conditions: a retrospective hospital-based study in Brussels, Belgium
... for Palliative Care, called the Brussels Pluralist Federation for Palliative and Continuing Care (FBSP), who wanted to estimate the number of children and adolescents with complex chronic ...
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Does referral to specialist paediatric palliative care services reduce hospital admissions in oncology patients at the end of life?
... Specialist Paediatric Palliative Care Services (SPPCSs) have been developed rapidly over the last three decades, but as a medical subspecialty are still in their ...to palliative care ...
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Exploring the rewards and challenges of paediatric palliative care work – a qualitative study of a multi-disciplinary children’s hospice care team
... Study quality was assured against several criteria, includ- ing dependability, credibility and authenticity [29]. The use of topic guides for interviews and focus groups provided a standardized approach to data ...
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Paediatric palliative care improves patient outcomes and reduces healthcare costs: evaluation of a home-based program
... high-technology care that may not be in the best interest of the dying child remains a major cost driver in today’s healthcare ...advance care plans that lim- ited life sustaining therapy just before death, ...
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An analysis of paediatric palliative care in the state of Victoria
... It could be argued that a bereavement support service, set up along interdisciplinary lines with significant input from the medical and nursing disciplines as well as social work, ment[r] ...
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Building Bridges, Paediatric Palliative Care in Belgium: A secondary data analysis of annual paediatric liaison team reports from 2010 to 2014
... Furthermore, Carter introduces the concept of liminal- ity which is an expression used in anthropology. Limin- ality refers to the intimate parental experience being nowhere, in a place where usual landmarks are bec- ...
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Staff Experiences of Media Representations of Paediatric Palliative Care: Implications for Wellbeing and Career Longevity
... remaining as inclusive as possible (Potter & Wetherall, 1987). This enabled me to examine specific extracts of texts, which represented recurring themes. Step two involved an examination of the extra discursive ...
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Paediatric palliative care : development and pilot study of a ‘Directory’ of life limiting conditions
... and palliative care services for children by institutions within the National Health ...providing palliative care, by allowing a definition of palliative care derived from a ...
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Paediatric palliative home care in areas of Germany with low population density and long distances: a questionnaire survey with general paediatricians
... outpatient care known as a particular challenge ...other paediatric palliative care providers, being a topic of special interest in areas with low patient num- bers and long distances like ...
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Paediatric palliative home care by general paediatricians: a multimethod study on perceived barriers and incentives
... the care if coverage of large areas is aimed ...by paediatric palliative care specialists is crucial in order to establish local networks, especially when taking into account the heterogeneous ...
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Barriers and needs in paediatric palliative home care in Germany: a qualitative interview study with professional experts
... of palliative care; however, recent publications report that there were only four physicians with a specialist paediatric palliative care qualification in 2003 [36] and five in 2006 ...
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The development of an instrument that can identify children with palliative care needs: the Paediatric Palliative Screening Scale (PaPaS Scale): a qualitative study approach
... in palliative care by the Together for Short Lives Categor- ies (TfSL, formerly ACT [5]; Table ...‘paediatric palliative care’ , ‘hospice’ , ‘assessment’ and ‘needs assessment’ (health ...
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