Decision Making on Critically Ill Infants by Parents

Decision Making and End-of-Life Care in Critically Ill Children

“…Description of the Literature. We found a number of legal opinions or discussions about end-of-life care in critically ill children (20)(21)(22), editorials (23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28), reviews (29,30), commentaries (31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40), guidelines (14,(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46), proceedings of conferences (47), and book chapters (9,48,49). However, we found only a few scientific publications (i.e., based on data rather than opinions or advice) about end-of-life decisions in critically ill children: three non-systematic descriptive case reports (19,50,51), three systematic descriptive studies (12,52,53), two qualitative studies (15,54), and four surveys (55)(56)(57)(58).…”