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Pediatric Palliative Care
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Each year, 500,000 children in the United States cope with life-threatening illness. These children and their families require comprehensive, compassionate, and developmentally appropriate palliative care. This review article discusses pediatric palliative care, which should intersect with the aims of curing and healing and become instrumental for improving quality of life.
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Committee on Bioethics and Committee on Hospital Care (2000) · Pediatrics · doi:10.1542/peds.106.2.351 · Cited by 659
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Parent and Physician Perspectives on Quality of Care at the End of Life in Children With Cancer
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- Authors
- Himelstein, B. P., Hilden, J. M., Boldt, A. M., & Weissman, D.
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2004-04-22
- Volume
- 350
- Issue
- 17
- Pages
- 1752-1762
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W1999901612
- Cited by
- 571
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 29.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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