Paediatric palliative care is an emerging subspecialty that focuses on achieving the best
possible quality of life for children with life-threatening conditions and their families. To achieve …

The first edition of this book was the first authoritative, systematic and comprehensive text to
define the increasingly important and evolving specialty of paediatric palliative care. It …

Recent calls for an expanded perspective on medical education and training include focusing
on complexities of professional identity formation (PIF). Medical educators are challenged …

Objectives. Acts of kindness and commemoration by staff members often follow the death of
a patient. Acts include attending funerals, sending sympathy cards, sending cards on …

Background: Although educational innovations in medical education are increasing in number,
many educators do not submit their ideas for publication. Aims: The goal of this initiative …

Although the modern pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) has followed general pediatrics
and adopted the family-centered care model, little is known about how families prospectively …

Our objective was to develop a rich description of how parents experience their grief in the
first year after the death of their child, and how various bereavement follow-up and support …

When parents first meet their child, they take on the entwined joys and burdens of caring for
another person. Providing care for their child becomes the basic expectation, during health …

Background: Pediatric palliative care focuses on comprehensive symptom management and
enhancing quality of life for children with life-threatening conditions and their families. Our …

Background: Lack of pediatric palliative care (PPC) training impedes successful integration
of PPC principles into pediatric oncology. Objectives: We examined the impact of an …