MeSH: Hospitals, Pediatric
Palliative care is not associated with decreased intensity of care: Results of a chart review from a large children’s hospital
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BACKGROUND: Palliative care is an important component of pediatric oncology care, especially for children who will not be cured of their disease. However, barriers remain to integration of this service. One barrier is the perception that it indicates “giving up.” This study examined if palliative care involvement was associated with a decreased intensity of care…
Treatment limitation and advance planning: Hospital-wide audit of paediatric death
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AIM: To examine paediatric deaths following withdrawal or withholding of medical treatment (WWMT) from a hospital-wide perspective and identify changes over a 10 year period. METHODS: A retrospective review of medical records was conducted for all paediatric inpatient deaths at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne from April 2015 to April 2016, and results were compared…
A description of children dependent on long term ventilation via tracheostomy and their hospital resource use
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PURPOSE: To describe the proportion of children with an index hospitalization in 2014 who had established long-term invasive ventilator dependence (LTVD), and determine regional variation in hospital length of stay, charges, and readmissions. DESIGN AND METHODS: Multicenter, longitudinal, retrospective cohort study using a recently established algorithm to identify children with LTVD from the Pediatric Health…