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| Title |
Paediatric palliative care: recommendations for treatment of symptoms in the Netherlands
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| Published in |
BMC Palliative Care, November 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12904-015-0054-7 |
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| Authors |
Rutger R. G. Knops, Leontien C. M. Kremer, A. A. Eduard Verhagen, on behalf of the Dutch Paediatric Palliative Care Guideline Group for Symptoms |
| Abstract |
Children dying of a life threatening disease suffer a great deal at the end of life. Symptom control is often unsatisfactory, partly because many caregivers are simply not familiar with paediatric palliative care. To ensure that a child with a life-threatening condition receives high quality palliative care, clinical practice guidelines are needed. The aim of this study is to improve palliative care for children by making high quality care recommendations to recognize and relieve symptoms in paediatric palliative care. An extensive search was performed for guidelines and systematic reviews on paediatric palliative care up to year 2011. An expert panel combined the evidence with consensus to form recommendations on the treatment of symptoms in paediatric palliative care. We appraised 21 guidelines and identified 693 potentially eligible articles of which four met our inclusion criteria. None gave recommendations on the treatment of symptoms in paediatric palliative care. Two textbooks and an adult palliative care website were eventually our main sources of evidence. Hardly any evidence is available for the treatment of symptoms in paediatric palliative care. By combining evidence for adult palliative care and the sparse evidence for paediatric palliative care with expert opinion we defined a unique set of high quality care recommendations to relieve symptoms and lessen the suffering of children in palliative care. These results are an important tool to educate caregivers on how to relieve symptoms in children in paediatric palliative care. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 125 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 125 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 25 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 19 | 15% |
| Other | 12 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 17 | 14% |
| Unknown | 31 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 37 | 30% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 22 | 18% |
| Psychology | 6 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 14 | 11% |
| Unknown | 37 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 August 2019.
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#3,300,930
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Outputs from BMC Palliative Care
#418
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#49,450
of 285,787 outputs
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#6
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