Findings from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Broaden Understanding of Cancer (Providing Palliative and Hospice Care To Children, Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer)

2021 AUG 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Pediatrics Daily News -- Data detailed on Cancer have been presented. According to news reporting originating in Palo Alto, California, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “To describe palliative, concurrent, and hospice care in pediatric oncology in the United States (US), we present a clinical scenario illustrating palliative and hospice care, including eligibility for concurrent care, insurance coverage and billing, barriers to accessing quality pediatric palliative and hospice care, and implications for oncology nursing practice. Peer-reviewed articles, clinical practice guidelines, professional organizations, and expert clinical opinion examining pediatric oncology, palliative care, and hospice care.”

Funders for this research include National Center for Research Resources, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, “Understanding the goals of palliative and hospice care and the differences between them is important in providing holistic, goal-directed care. Implications for Nursing Practice: Oncology nurses play a pivotal role in supporting the goals of pediatric palliative care and hospice care and in educating patients and their families.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Nurses form trusting relationships with pediatric oncology patients and their families and are in a position to advocate for best palliative care practices as disease progresses to end of life, including when appropriate concurrent care or hospice.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Providing Palliative and Hospice Care To Children, Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer. Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 2021;37(3):151166. Seminars in Oncology Nursing can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Inc, Ste 800, 230 Park Ave, New York, NY 10169, USA. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Seminars in Oncology Nursing - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/seminars-in-oncology-nursing/)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Kimberly A. Pyke-Grimm, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Dept Nursing Res & Evidence Based Practice, Palo Alto, CA 94304, United States. Additional authors for this research include Beth Fisher, Amy Haskamp, Cynthia J. Bell and Amy R. Newman.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2021.151166. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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