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

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Description	xx, 690 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Form	Also available online.
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.
Contents	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, origanizing, 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.
Subject	Terminally ill children -- Care.
	Terminally ill children -- Family relationships.
	Palliative treatment.
	Terminal Care. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013727
	Child. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002648
	Health Policy. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006291
	Patient Participation. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010358
	Professional-Family Relations. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011368
	Terminal Care -- economics. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013727Q000191
	Terminal Care -- legislation & jurisprudence. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013727Q000331
	United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
	Palliative treatment. (OCoLC)fst01051719
	Terminally ill children -- Care. (OCoLC)fst01147897
	Terminally ill children -- Family relationships. (OCoLC)fst01147898
Added Author	Field, Marilyn J. (Marilyn Jane)
	Behrman, Richard E., 1931-
	Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families.
ISBN	0309084377 (hardcover)
	9780309084376 (hardcover)
	0309502152
	9780309502153

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