Table 3 Reasons for joint patient care and participating disciplines (2008)
Local specialist paediatric palliative care providers | Paediatricians aware of this service | Paediatricians stating joint patient care with this service | Reasons given for initiating a collaboration with other paediatric palliative care providers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Supportive therapy (e.g., intravenous medication) | Symptom control/pain therapy | Psychosocial support | |||
Children’s hospital | 129 (91.5%) | 108 (76.6%) | 72 (51.5%) | 58 (41.1%) | 44 (29.1%) |
Paediatric home care nursing service | 110 (78.0%) | 94 (66.7%) | 41 (29.1%) | 38 (27.0%) | 51 (36.2%) |
Psychotherapist | 71 (50.4%) | 42 (29.8%) | 0 | 1 (0.7%) | 34 (24.1%) |
Children’s hospice | 62 (44.0%) | 37 (26.6%) | 10 (7.1%) | 17 (12.1%) | 28 (19.9%) |
Paediatric home hospice service | 29 (20.6%) | 11 (7.8%) | 0 | 0 | 9 (6.4%) |
Parents' association | 31 (22.0%) | 8 (5.7%) | 1 (0.7%) | 0 | 8 (5.7%) |
Total | 138 (97.9%) | 126 (89.4%) | 84 (59.6%) | 78 (55.3%) | 101 (71.6%) |