MeSH: Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer: A Retrospective Case Note Audit from a Regional Specialist Center in the United Kingdom
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The extent of Advance Care Planning (ACP) among Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) cancer patients is not well characterized. This retrospective case note audit scrutinized the records of all AYA patients (aged 16-25 years) known to a regional specialist center in the United Kingdom, and who died between 2013 and 2019, for evidence of ACP.…
Advance care planning for adolescents with cancer and their parents: study protocol of the BOOST pACP multi-centre randomised controlled trial and process evaluation
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BACKGROUND: Research has highlighted the need for evidence-based interventions to improve paediatric advance care planning (pACP) in adolescents with cancer. Although adolescents express the desire and ability to share their values, beliefs and preferences for treatment, there is a lack of structured multicomponent interventions to improve parent-adolescent communication on different ACP themes including those not…
Communication around palliative care principles and advance care planning between oncologists, children with advancing cancer and families
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BACKGROUND: In medical oncology, palliative care principles and advance care planning are often discussed later in illness, limiting time for conversations to guide goal-concordant care. In pediatric oncology, the frequency, timing and content of communication about palliative care principles and advance care planning remains understudied. METHODS: We audio-recorded serial disease re-evaluation conversations between oncologists, children…
Participatory development of a modular advance care planning program in pediatric palliative care (MAPPS)
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CONTEXT: Decision-making in pediatric palliative care concerns mainly children without decision-making capacity. It has to balance the child’s best interests, parental responsibility and the impact on the family system. OBJECTIVES: Advance care planning (ACP) supports decision making about future medical care. A consistent pediatric approach is still missing. This study aimed at developing a pediatric…
Perceptions of nurses caring for children with life-limiting conditions in an acute setting in the Republic of Ireland
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The use of advance directives is an important component in helping individuals living with chronic and/or life-threatening illnesses establish goals of care and make decisions regarding care at the end of life. Advance care planning may help achieve enhanced health outcomes, yet it is not routinely offered to adolescents/young adults living with neuromuscular disease. An…