We appreciate very much the letter of Dr. Ruprecht Nitschke as a comment on our guidelines for terminally ill children. The author reports the very long experience, since 1974, of the Hematology/ Oncology Section of the Children's Hospital of Oklahoma in caring for the terminally ill children, under
Care of terminally ill children with cancer
โ Scribed by Nitschke, Ruprecht; Meyer, William H.; Sexauer, Charles L.; Parkhurst, Joan B.; Foster, Pamela; Huszti, Heather
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 51 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-1532
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
## Background: The purpose of this study was to find out whether autopsy of children with cancer should be recommended after terminal care, or whether in those circumstances it could be abandoned. ## Patients and methods: One hundred pediatric patients with cancer treated at the children's hospit
The aim of this study was to obtain objective data on the type and frequency of psychological and psychiatric problems in terminally ill patients and determine the influence of various factors on prevalence of adjustment disorder (ie., sociodemographics, awareness of the diagnosis, clinical variable
To determine an underlying factorial structure of existential distress in Japanese terminally ill cancer patients, a principal components analysis was performed on 162 Japanese hospice inpatients. Existential distress commonly identified was dependency (39%), meaninglessness in present life (37%), h