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Suggested Citation:"Committee Members." Institute of Medicine. 2003. When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families: Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10845.
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This summary is based on the Institute of Medicine report When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and their Families, Marilyn J. Field and Richard E. Behrman, Editors. The report was prepared by a committee consisting of:

Richard E. Behrman, MD, JD, (Chair) Executive Chair, Federation of Pediatric Organizations, Education Steering Committee; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University and the University of California

Grace H. Christ, DSW, Associate Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work

Francis Sessions Cole, MD, Park J. White M.D. Professor of Pediatrics and Vice-Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine; Director, Division of Newborn Medicine, St. Louis Children’s Hospital

Harvey R. Colten, MD, Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for Translational Research, Columbia University Health Sciences

Joanne Hilden, MD, Chair, Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology; Director, Pediatric Palliative Care, The Children’s Hospital at The Cleveland Clinic; Co-Chair, Children’s Oncology Group End-of-Life Care Subcommittee

Pamela Hinds, BSN, PhD, Director of Nursing Research, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis

Angela R. Holder, LLM, Professor of the Practice of Medical Ethics, Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Department of Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center

Haiden A. Huskamp, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Economics, Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy

Robert Kliegman, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin; Pediatrician in Chief, Pamela and Leslie Muma Chair in Pediatrics Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin

Marcia Levetown, MD, Pain and Palliative Care Education Consultant, Houston

Neil L. Schechter, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Head, Division of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine; Director, Pain Relief Program, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and St. Francis Hospital, Hartford

Barbara M. Sourkes, PhD, Kriewall-Haehl Director of Pediatric Palliative Care, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine

Lizabeth Sumner, RN, BSN, Children’s Program Director, San Diego Hospice Corporation

Joseph L. Wright, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Advocacy and Community Affairs, Children’s National Medical Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Community Health, George Washington University School of Medicine

IOM Staff

Marilyn J. Field, PhD, Study Director

Susan Stefanac, Research Assistant (to June 2001)

Travis Gayles, Research Assistant (from September 2001)

Troy Prince, Senior Project Assistant

Editing

Donna Bell Sanders, MPH, California Family Health Council

Art Work

Timothy C. Costich, MD, original photograph

Francesca Moghari, initial photoediting

Sue Parkinson, design

Funding

Funding for this summary was provided by the Open Society Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

This summary and the original report can be viewed or purchased at www.nap.edu.

Suggested Citation:"Committee Members." Institute of Medicine. 2003. When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families: Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10845.
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We can improve palliative care for very ill children and their families.

The life-threatening illness or death of a child is overwhelming and hard to face. This booklet outlines ways health care professionals, policy makers, insurers, and family advocates can work together to improve the kind of care very ill or dying children receive.

We can help create a care system that all children and families can rely on and trust. We can:

  • Help prevent or relieve pain and suffering.

  • Provide children and families with the information they need.

  • Give them emotional support.

  • Respect families’ choices and values.

  • Help families make difficult decisions.

These are some of the ways palliative care supports and comforts children and their families.

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Suggested Citation:"Committee Members." Institute of Medicine. 2003. When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families: Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10845.
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Suggested Citation:"Committee Members." Institute of Medicine. 2003. When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families: Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10845.
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This document is a brief summary of the Institute of Medicine report entitled When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children. Better care is possible now, but current methods of organizing and financing palliative, end-of-life, and bereavement care complicate the provision and coordination of services to help children and families and sometimes require families to choose between curative or life-prolonging care and palliative services, in particular, hospice care. Inadequate data and scientific knowledge impede efforts to deliver effective care, educate professionals to provide such care, and design supportive public policies. Integrating effective palliative care from the time a child's life-threatening medical problem is diagnosed will improve care for children who survive as well as children who die-and will help the families of all these children. The report recognizes that while much can be done now to support children and families, much more needs to be learned. The analysis and recommendations reflect current knowledge and judgments, but new research and insights will undoubtedly suggest modifications and shifts in emphasis in future years.

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