Qualitative Study of Paediatric Advance Care Planning Through Simulation: How We Did It and the Lessons Learned

Abstract

Background/aims: Simulation allows clinicians to experience a replication of reality, enabling feasible and ethical study of complex phenomena, such as communication and care around the end of life. There is a paucity of literature describing how to design a simulation as an investigative method in qualitative research. This work describes how we designed a simulation-based qualitative study exploring paediatricians’ communication practices in paediatric advance care planning and our learnings about this research method.