A consensus conference report on defining the eligibility criteria for pediatric palliative care in Italy

• Main Authors: Momcilo Jankovic (Author), Lucia De Zen (Author), Federico Pellegatta (Author), Pierina Lazzarin (Author), Marina Bertolotti (Author), Luca Manfredini (Author), Antonino Aprea (Author), Luigi Memo (Author), Antonio Del Vecchio (Author), Rino Agostiniani (Author), Franca Benini (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The definition of the eligibility criteria of newborn, infant, child, or adolescent patients for palliative care (PC) is complicated by the fact that these patients generally present with very specific case histories that make it inadvisable to directly adopt existing PC protocol...