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Pediatrics

Optimising the role and value of the interdisciplinary team: Providing person-centred end of life care Effective interdisciplinary teamwork, with its emphasis on person-centred communication, is increasingly seen as a way of...

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care for Children (2nd Edition) This book provides a practical and informative guide which promotes a model of care that is sufficiently flexible to address...

Pain in Children and Adults with Developmental Disabilities For clinicians, recognizing and correctly interpreting any patient's expression of pain is a challenge - but a necessity...

Pain in Children with Cognitive Impairments who are Nonverbal The “Psychology Works” Fact Sheet: Pain in Children with Cognitive Impairments who are Nonverbal provides an excellent overview...

Palliative Care for Infants, Children, and Adolescents: A Practical Handbook (2nd Ed.) This textbook provides guidance to professionals involved in pediatric end-of-life care. It includes the epidemiology of...

Palliative Care: Conversations Matter® The Palliative Care: Conversations Matter® campaign aims to increase the use of palliative care for children and teens living...

Parenting After the Death of a Child: A Practitioner's Guide In the aftermath of the death of a child, parents face the challenge of not only dealing with their own grief, but also that...

Pediatric Hospice Palliative Care Guiding Principles and Norms of Practice This document is designed to guide health care professionals in establishing standards of practice, service delivery, program...

Pediatric Pain and Symptom Management Algorithms for Palliative Care These pain and symptom algorithms were developed in response to the needs identified by many different individuals and agencies.

Pediatric Pain and Symptom Management Guidelines - Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s Hospital These Pediatric Pain and Symptom Management Guidelines by the Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s Hospital are...