Abstract

SALVADOR COLOMA, C. et al. The current situation of palliative care: review of a non-standardized situation. Rev Pediatr Aten Primaria [online]. 2015, vol.17, n.67, pp.e215-e222. ISSN 1139-7632.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1139-76322015000400017.

In the last 50 years medicine has evolved more than in the previous two centuries but there are currently many pathologies that modern medicine has not been able to cure. Until a mere few decades ago, children diagnosed with cancer died within a short time. However, this has gradually changed and, nowadays, over half of them become long-term survivors. Palliative care as a medical specialization has markedly developed in recent years. Nevertheless, there is a specific part that is still far from being established, pediatric palliative care (PPC). Children have different needs to be attended. PPC should be reviewed with a special focus on the precise differences present in children and their specific problems.

Keywords : Palliative care; Pediatrics; Quality of life; Child; Adolescent.

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