A Need Recognized
As specialists in the field of Pediatric palliative care, the Siden Research Team understood the struggles of keeping current on articles dedicated to the field. With no journal dedicated to pediatric palliative care, finding relevant articles required scouring pediatric journals for palliative literature and palliative journals for paediatric literature – clearly there was a gap in effective dissemination of relevant articles. In hopes of helping pediatric palliative care improve its ability to collaborate and progress, the Siden Research Team took initiative to bridge this gap. In June 2016 the first search and resulting citation list was compiled.
Our Search Strategy
To create the TRENDS citation list, we search Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Scopus and Google Scholar. The search was designed by our librarian and refined in consultation with the team to provide a comprehensive multi-disciplinary list of articles. The results of the search are then further refined by our team to provide a curated list of pediatric palliative care search.
Research in Context
The TRENDS commentary is provided each month by experts in the ecosystem of pediatric palliative care, that shares their thoughts about the collected reviews. The commentaries are short, about 500-700 words. The commentary is a personal reflection on the commentator’s experience in pediatric palliative care/complex care and their thoughts about an article or theme from that month’s list.
TRENDS Now and in the Future
TRENDS is now published monthly, and each year we have special annual editions focused on three themes: Oncology, Low Resource Settings, Parent-led searches. The success of TRENDS is in part due to the diversity of commentators from the pediatric palliative care ecosystem including clinicians, nurses, researchers, librarians, social workers, and parents. Previous commentators have included Justin Baker, Meaghann Weaver, Lorna Fraser, Adam Rapoport and Kim Widger. Click here to see the full list.
In 2024 TRENDS published it’s 100th issue and enrolled its 1000th newsletter subscriber, the newsletters growth shows no signs of stopping. The Siden Research Team continues to center ways to foster the pediatric palliative care community and ultimately improve care for our patients.