Parent-Reported Outcomes of Prognostic Communication in Hospitalized Children with Advanced Heart Disease (S762)

Communication between parents and physicians is essential to high-quality care. For families of patients with AHD, understanding prognosis is critical to decision making and is associated with less perceived suffering at end of life. This is the first study to prospectively evaluate how parents of children with AHD perceive prognostic communication with their child ’s physicians.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - January 25, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Mary Katherine Miller, Emily Morell, Angela Feraco, Sarah Goldberg, Jeffrey Reichman, Lori Sahakian, Lynn Sleeper, Elizabeth Blume Source Type: research