Focus is on the care, comfort, and quality of life for children living with a life-threatening, life-limiting, or progressive illness.
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Palliative Care for Children
American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement offers advice on the development of a pediatric palliative care plan.
Royal Children's Hospital: Paediatric Palliative Care
Focus is on the dying child's quality of life, support for the family, and management of distressing symtoms. [Melbourne, Australia]
Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care
Desire to enhance family centered care for children living with life threatening conditions through education, research, and quality improvement.
The Jason Program
Provides medical, emotional and spiritual care to Maine's critically ill and dying children and their families.
Children's Hospice International
Gateway for education, referrals and community resources for families coping with children that have catastrophic and terminal illnesses.
ACT
Provides information to families and professionals involved in palliative care for children with life-threatening or terminal conditions. [UK]
Care of the Terminally Ill Child
Information about a child's concept of death, grief, physical and psychosocial needs, supportive, and the dying process.
End-of-Life Care for Children
An educational palliative and pain management resource for parents and health professionals who care for children suffering from pain due to cancer. [Texas]
The Hospital for Sick Children: Palliative Care
Description of services, resources, how to make difficult treatment decisions, calendar, and caring tips. [Ontario, Canda]
Edmarc Hospice for Children
Offers home healthcare, hospice, and bereavement support. Material on services, the organization, and contact information. [Portsmouth, Virginia]
Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition
Promotes family-centered care for children with life-threatening illness by reducing physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychological pain for the entire family. [California]
Hospice of Contra Costa: Comfort for Kids
Provides compassionate health care to children facing the advanced stages of life-threatening illness.
Web Search
Pediatric Palliative Care
URL : www.getpalliativecare.org/whatis/4
Pediatric palliative care focuses on comfort and works to relieve physical, emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual suffering in the face of curative treatments.[2008/11/26]
Pediatric Palliative Care Network
URL : mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2terminal&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Consumer&L2=Physical...
The goal of the Pediatric Palliative Care Network is to improve the quality of ... Pediatric Palliative Care Network. 250 Washington Street, 5th Floor. Boston, ...[2008/11/23]
Pediatric Palliative Care
URL : www.hospicefed.org/hospice_pages/pedi_palliative_care.htm
... experienced in pediatric palliative care, the program ... Hospices offering Pediatric Palliative Care. Bay State Visiting Nurse and Hospice Services ...[2008/09/23]
Pediatric Palliative Care
URL : www.umassmemorial.org/MedicalCenterIP.cfm?id=3912
Home UMass Memorial Medical Center News/Events Health Articles Pediatric Palliative Care ... UMass Memorial staff offers two pediatric palliative care ...[2008/11/16]
Pediatric Palliative Care
URL : hns.org/PalliativeCare/Resources/.../tabid/288/Default.aspx
Pediatric Palliative Care of the North Shore understands ... Pediatric Palliative Care. Home Search Site Map Directions to HNS Privacy Statement Terms Of Use ...[2008/11/20]
Pediatric Palliative Care
URL : www.browardhealth.org/145730.cfm
Pediatric Palliative Care at Chris Evert Children's Hospital, part of Broward General in Fort Lauderdale, Florida ... The palliative care team helps families ...[2008/11/02]
NEJM -- Pediatric Palliative Care
URL : content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/350/17/1752
Review Article from The New England Journal of Medicine -- Pediatric Palliative Care ... The aims of pediatric palliative care should best intersect with the aims of ...[2008/11/21]
Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care (IPPC): Curriculum
URL : www.ippcweb.org
Desire to enhance family centered care for children living with life ... years, The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care has brought together close ...[2008/11/03]
Joliet Area Community Hospice - A Special Kind of Care
URL : www.joliethospice.org/pediatric_care.shtml
... comprehensive, holistic, community based support services and care for terminally ill persons, their caregivers, and ... Pediatric Palliative Care. Sunshine ...[2008/11/23]
Pediatric Palliative Care - Pediatric Palliative Care for Children
URL : dying.about.com/od/pediatriccare/a/pediatric.htm
Information about pediatric palliative care and hospice for children. ... Pediatric palliative care can help these children and their families receive ...[2008/11/25]
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