To check or not to check: The role of checklists in children's palliative care

摘要

Children's palliative care is somewhat of a paradox. It was patient-centered long before patient-centered became a popular term for fimders and policymakers. It began as multidisciplinary, collaborative, and comprehensive as opposed to other areas in medicine that until recently were far from being teams based. It seeks to address the mind, body, and spirit in an era when most pediatric care is defined by 15-min intervals in which addressing the body is all that can be managed. It transcends cultures, as the death of a child is a loss that no parent would ever want to face. Yet, if children's palliative care is all of these things, why does it seem that something is holding us back?