Volume 16, Nos. 3-4 -- 2003
Achieving pain control in pediatric palliative care
An interview with Dr. Patricia A. McGrath
- Myths and misconceptions about pain control in children
- Analgesic drugs for pain relief in children with terminal illness
- Progress regarding safety and efficacy of analgesics for children
New tools to improve clinical competency in pediatric pain management
- Understanding pain in children who cannot speak
- Course for pediatric oncology nurses
- Online lectures on pediatric pain
- Manual for patient/family education
Resources to develop and enhance pediatric palliative care services
- The facts
- US initiative for pediatric palliative care (IPPC) sets strategy for service provision
- US legislature proposes policy to improve pediatric palliative care services
- UK guide to pediatric palliative care published
- Children's Hospice International proposes models in the provision of pediatric palliative care
- US coalition offers precepts of palliative care for children
- International Society for Pediatric Oncology (SIOP) adopts guidelines for standards of treatment and care in childhood cancer
- Children's International Project on Palliative/Hospice Services
New books and journals about pain in children
RESEARCH IN CANCER PAIN AND PALLIATIVE CARE
Recent evidence about pediatric palliative care and pain control
- Young children with cancer experience multiple symptoms including pain
- Half of children experience pain after cancer diagnosis
- International experts agree on analgesic management of pain in newborns
- Terminally-ill children experience multiple symptoms requiring palliative care
- Pain assessment strategies for profoundly impaired children
- Intravenous morphine infusions relieve surgical pain in children with malignant tumors
- Pediatric oncologists lack palliative care training
- Results of multicenter survey shape teaching of pediatric palliative care in the US
- Transition from cure to palliative care poorly documented in pediatric setting
- A consensus-based model to deliver palliative care for newborns
- Poor communication between parents and clinicians hurts quality of care of pediatric patients