When children die : improving palliative and end-of-life care for children and their families

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Label

When children die : improving palliative and end-of-life care for children and their families

Title remainder

improving palliative and end-of-life care for children and their families

Statement of responsibility

Committee on Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; Marilyn J. Field and Richard E. Behrman, editors

Contributor

• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Committee on Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families
• Behrman, Richard E., 1931-
• Field, Marilyn J., (Marilyn Jane)

Subject

• Child
• Electronic books.
• Electronic bookss.
• Health Policy
• Palliative treatment
• Patient Participation
• Professional-Family Relations
• Terminal Care
• Terminal Care -- economics
• Terminal Care -- legislation & jurisprudence
• Terminally ill children -- Care
• Terminally ill children -- Family relationships
• United States

Language

eng

Summary

Introduction -- Patterns of childhood death in America -- Pathways to a child's death -- Communication, goal setting, and care planning -- Care and caring from diagnosis through death and bereavement -- Providing, organizing, and improving care -- Financing of palliative and end-of-life care for children and their families -- Ethical and legal issues -- Educating health care professionals -- Directions for research

Additional physical form

Also issued on the Internet.

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Dewey number

362.1/75/083

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

RJ249

LC item number

.W445 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

• 2003 D-145
• WS 200

NLM item number

W567 2003