ArticleChild: care, health and development2022
Decision-making experiences of health professionals in withdrawing treatment for children and young people: A qualitative study.
Article in Child: care, health and development, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The elements of end-of-life care provision in paediatric intensive care units: a systematic integrative review.BMC palliative care · 2024Pooled it
- How are agency and autonomy understood in children's palliative and end-of-life care?: A narrative review.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Review
- Exploring the experiences of children's palliative care for forced migrant families in the United Kingdom: an interpretative phenomenological study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Decision-making experiences of health professionals in withdrawing treatment for children and young people: A qualitative study.Child: care, health and development · 2022Article
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5 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo explore factors that influence professionals in deciding whether to withdraw treatment from a child and how decision making is managed amongst professionals as an individual and as a team. STUDY
designSemi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of health professionals working at a UK Children's Hospital, with children with life-limiting illnesses whose treatment has been withdrawn. Data were transcribed verbatim, anonymized and analysed using a thematic framework method.
resultsA total of 15 participants were interviewed. Five interrelated themes with associated subthemes were generated to help understand the experiences of health professionals in decision making on withdrawing a child's treatment: (1) understanding the child's best interests, (2) multidisciplinary approach, (3) external factors, (4) psychological well-being and (5) recommendations to support shared decision making.
conclusionA shared decision-making approach should be adopted to support professionals, children and their families to make decisions collectively.
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