Palliative medicine
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Palliative medicine · Mar 2020
Achieving beneficial outcomes for children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions receiving palliative care and their families: A realist review.
Palliative care for children and young people is a growing global health concern with significant resource implications. Improved understanding of how palliative care provides benefits is necessary as the number of children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions rises. ⋯ Palliative care is a complex, multifactorial intervention. This review provides in-depth understanding into important contexts in which child and family outcomes can be achieved so that they benefit from palliative care and should inform future service development and practice.