Discussing Death: Making end of life implicit or explicit in paediatric palliative care consultations

In the suburbs of an Australian city, a doctor and nurse from a paediatric palliative care service are visiting a family for the second time in a week. Sitting with the family in the backyard, they discuss a nine-year-old boy who is inside the house. Half an hour into their conversation, and shown in Table 1, the boy ’s future becomes their focus:

Source: Patient Education and Counseling - August 31, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Stuart Ekberg, Susan Danby, Johanna Rendle-Short, Anthony Herbert, Natalie K. Bradford, Patsy Yates Source Type: research