How do we assess the current and future quality of life (QoL) for infants and children with life-threatening conditions? The April issue of Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care presents a collection of essays in which physicians, medical ethicists, parents, and caregivers ...
OBJECTIVE: We estimated the prevalence of children with life-threatening conditions (LTC) cared for in the military health system (MHS) in response to a Congressional inquiry and to inform program planning. METHODS: We developed a case definition of LTC, using the concept ''death trajectory''(...
How do we assess the current and future quality of life (QoL) for infants and children with life-threatening conditions? In the April issue ofCurrent Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, "The Quality of Life of Young Children and Infants with Chronic Medical Problems," presents a ...
"As clinicians caring for children with a variety of life-threatening conditions, members of our research group have long known, by bearing witness, that many of the parents and siblings of our patients are adversely affected by the stress imposed due to presence of a life-threatening condition ...
Apparent life-threatening event syndrome predominantly affects children younger than one year. This syndrome is characterized by a frightening constellation of symptoms in which the child exhibits some combination of apnea, change in color, change in muscle tone, coughing, or gagging. Approximately 50 ...
Life-threatening headaches in children can present in an apoplectic manner that garners immediate medical attention, or in an insidious, more dangerous form that may go unnoticed for a relatively long period of time. The recognition of ce...
摘要: To identify barriers, as perceived by parents, to good care for children with life-threatening conditions.关键词: palliative care medical ethics paediatric palliative care DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035863 年份: 2020 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 ...
(CNN) -The risks of severe complications during pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum can vary drastically depending on where the person lives, a new study suggests.Among people with Medicaid insurance in the United States, rates ofsevere maternal morbidity-- life-threatening complications during pregnan...
During her 26 years of clinical practice at the PICU, the 59-year-old doctor has saved innumerable children with life-threatening conditions and treated young patients in disaster-stricken areas. However, one particular case remains fresh in her memory. ...
Pledge to children with life threatening conditions 来自 webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk 喜欢 0 阅读量: 10 作者: DO Health 摘要: A renewed commitment to help children with life limiting or life threatening conditions was made today by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley...