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End of life care for infants, children and young people with life-limiting conditions: planning and management

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  • Reference number: NG61
  • Published:  07 December 2016
  • Last updated:  25 July 2019
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Research recommendations coming out of this guidance

  • Preferred place of care and place of death:- When planning and managing end of life care, what factors help children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their parents or carers to decide where they would like end of life care to be provided and where they prefer to die?

  • Perinatal palliative care:- What impact does timely perinatal palliative care have on the experience of bereaved parents?

  • Emotional and psychological support and interventions:- What emotional support do children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their parents or carers need, and how would they like these needs to be addressed?

  • Managing breakthrough pain:- What is the acceptability, safety, and effectiveness of different types of opioid analgesia for breakthrough pain in children and young people with life-limiting conditions who are having end of life care in the community?

  • Recognising that a child or young person may be dying:- What signs and symptoms indicate that a child or young person with a life-limiting condition is likely to die within hours or days?

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