Compassion and Community in Perinatal Palliative Care: Understanding the Necessity of the Patient Perspective Through Narrative Illustration.

Compassion and Community in Perinatal Palliative Care: Understanding the Necessity of the Patient Perspective Through Narrative Illustration. J Palliat Care. 2019 Feb 18;:825859719827020 Authors: Kuchemba-Hunter J Abstract Advancing technology in reproductive medicine has led to more frequent perinatal diagnoses of fatal or life-limiting anomaly. For those parents who choose to continue pregnancies while facing such a diagnosis, compassionate and communal perinatal palliative care provides beneficial physical and psycho-socio-emotional support for these families, so that they may preserve and acknowledge the relationship with their child, no matter how brief his/her life. PMID: 30776963 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Palliative Care - Category: Palliative Care Tags: J Palliat Care Source Type: research