pediatric palliative care: policy issues
DESCRIPTION
Overview of need for pediatric palliative care. Includes information on California waiver program providing special services to children living with serious illness. Distinguishes children's needs from adult needs. Suggests how to go beyond traditional hospice care to meet needs of seriously ill children.TRANSCRIPT
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Prepared for:
Children and Loss Class
GSEHD Counseling Department
CNSL 6179.10, Spring Semester
George Washington University
Pediatric Palliative Care
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Acknowledgements:
Slides based on two presentations available through SlideShare – Thank you, colleagues!
Christian Sinclair, MD. http://www.slideshare.net/ctsinclair/pediatric-palliative-care-overview?from=email&type=suggest_download&subtype=0
Children’s Hospice & Palliative Care Coalition
http://www.slideshare.net/mrsbutterworth/chpccwebconference50109
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Overview
Historical changes in experience of childhood
death - What is it like to have a child die?
Epidemiology of childhood death
It’s not just death – it’s also illness
Problems in serious illness and dying
How services can be organized
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Nick Snow 1990-2006
TRANSLATION = I wanted ALL
my suffering to go away; to be a
normal kid again!! Maybe not
having to worry about PILLS all
the TIME! Having the thought
about I might die if I don't get
Cortef (an adrenal drug) in the 3-
hour time frame. That is a very
very stressful, scary thought to
have when you're a kid!
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Historical Change
30% of all deaths in
children <5 years
old
2.2% of all deaths in
children 0-19 years
1900 2005
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Children living with life-
threatening conditions (LWLTC)
500,000 in US
Children grieving
(death or impending death of sibling, parent, family member
friend)
Number?
Childhood
deaths
53,000/yr in
US (2005)
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Peds Deaths Peds Hospice
Deaths in hospice care: 36%
(2005)
58,300 deaths under age 19
(2.2%) (2005)
50% under age 1
Pediatric
hospice: 10%
2.5 million deaths in US (2005)
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Differences between children and
adults in serious and terminal
illness Differences
Patient
Range of terminal illnesses
Trajectories of illness
Death is relatively rare
Developmental factors influencing pharmacology and physiology
Developmental factors influencing cognitive and emotional understanding
System
Clinical models of delivery
Funding mechanisms
Research paradigms
Educational initiatives
Emerging autonomy
Emotional strains on system/staff
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Life threatening + curative potential
Cancers
Organ Failure
Inevitable premature
death
Cystic Fibrosis
Genetic disorders
Progressive conditions – curative potential
Neuro-degenerative
Batten Disease
Irreversible but non-
progressive
Cerebral palsy
San Filippo
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Life threatening + curative potential
Cancers
Sepsis
Inevitable premature
death
Advanced Lung
Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer
Progressive conditions –
curative potential
ALS
Dementia
Irreversible but non-
progressive
Stroke
COPD
CHF
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All Children
1-19yo
• Accidents
• Assault
• Malignancy
• Suicide
• Congenital
• Chromosomal
• Cardiac
• Neurologic
All Children
1-19yo w/CCC
• Malignancy (43%)
• Neuromuscular (23%)
• Cardiac (17%)
All Infants
• Congenital
• LBW
• SIDS
• Birth complications
• Injury
All Infants w/CCC
• Cardiac (32%)
• Congenital (26%)
• Pulmonary (17%)
• Neuromuscular (14%)
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Percentage of Deaths at Home
Age Group 1989 2003
0-19 years 10% 18%
Infants 5% 7%
1-9 years 18% 31%
10-19 years 18% 32%
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Response to infant deaths
CAPTURING A SHORT LIFE DOCUMENTARY FILM TRAILER (1:53
trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vC7VFGp4gg&feature=related
NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP (9 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCnIAzcI7po&feature=related
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Area for Improvement
Pain and Symptom Management
89% of children experience “substantial” suffering in the last month of life.
>80% report treatment for pain
<50% report successful treatment for pain
(Wolfe, N.E.J.M., 342:326, 2000)
90% of children’s pain can be alleviated
(Komatsu, IPPC 2008)
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Area for Improvement
Parents consider communication key.(Meyer, Pediatrics, March 2006)
Parents understand prognosis nearly 200 days after
physician recognition. This disparity hampers end of life
care. (Wolfe, JAMA, 2000)
Parents carry clinician’s words and behavior with them
forever.
Communication, Relating humanely
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Area for Improvement
End of Life Choices, Continuity of Care
Most children die in the hospital, many in ICU
If death is from a treatment related cause,
chance of dying at home is almost zero.(Wolfe, NEJM, 2000)
Previously, no organized system to track
children and their care between hospital
and home
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Institute of Medicine:
When Children Die (2002)
Palliative care seeks to prevent and relieve the
physical and emotional distress produced by a
life threatening medical condition or its
treatment
Help patients and their families live as normally
as possible
Provide timely and accurate information and
support in decision-making
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World Health Organization (1998)
Care of child’s body, mind, and spirit
Starting at thepoint of diagnosis and
continuing regardless of whether curative
therapies are pursued
Expertise of a multidisciplinary team along with
family and community resources
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Pediatric palliative care can be delivered
concurrently with life-prolonging care or as the
main focus of care and is treatment that
should be started early in the trajectory of the
condition. It preserves the integrity of the
family during the disease
progression, addressing anticipatory grief and
bereavement support following the death.
Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care
Coalition (2007)
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Children who die
Chronic complex
conditions
Life-threatening
Life-limiting
Pediatric Palliative
Care
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1• I am seriously ill
2• I am seriously ill but will get better
3• I am always ill but will get better
4• I am always ill but will not get better
5• I am dying
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0-2 years
• Awareness of separation, tension
• Provide physical comfort, familiar people and objects
2-6 years
• Death as reversible, sleeping, magical thinking
• Concrete information, dispel misconceptions
7-12 years
• Death as final, personal, unpredictable
• May want graphic information
• Inquire for fears, encourage access to peers
12+ years
• Death as final, universal, but distanced
• May address unrealized plans, explanations
• Allow for emotions and privacy, support independence
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SettingPrivacy, Involve others, Sit down, Attentive,
Calm, Listening, Available
Perception Before you tell, ask
InvitationRespect the patient’s right to know or refuse
information
KnowledgeUse lay language, avoid technical
terms, give in small amounts
Empathy Listen for and identify emotions
Strategy and
SummaryMake clear expectations about the plan
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Care needed in communities
Children with complex, chronic
conditions spend most of the last year of
their lives at home
This means that high quality pain and
symptom management needs to be able to
be delivered in their communities, where
they are (Feudtner, JAMA, 2008)
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More facts and figures
A major complaint from parents of
children who die is fragmentation of care
Children receive care at many different sites
Health care providers rely heavily on
parents/caregivers to provide continuity
Families have to tell their stories over and over
Quality and accuracy become the family’s burden
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How Did This Happen?
Federal hospice eligibility regulations:
were developed in 1970s for adult cancer patients
require that a doctor and patient/parent sign an agreement stating that the patient has less than 6-months to live (if the disease follows its normal course)
require that patients stop all treatment intended specifically to cure their disease or prolong their lives
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Nick's Dream:
Pediatric Palliative Care Benefit
Nick Snow - Nevada Union High School Sophomore with neuroblastoma.
Saw first-hand that federal hospice rules do not work for children.
In 2003, went to Washington D.C., spoke to congress. Worked with the Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition (CHPCC), and Governor Schwarzenegger in California.
Under The Nick Snow Hospice and Palliative Care Act (AB-1745), California authorized to submit a federal waiver for more expansive pediatric palliative care beyond traditional hospice.
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The Nick Snow Act
“I don’t see why we need to give up all of these services just because we want to get better.”
Nick Snow, the boy who flunked hospice…twice!
You can download a copy of the Nick Snow Act and read about it in more detail:
http://www.childrenshospice.org/coalition/ab-1745-the-nick-snow-childrens-hospice-palliative-care-act-of-2006/
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Key CHiPPS
Recommendations Sole admission criteria to pediatric palliative care = pt not
expected to survive to adulthood
Interdisciplinary approaches address the whole person and family
Provisions of support for staff who care for children with life-limiting illness
Post-death care needs to be integrated with health care design and funding
Financial incentives for pediatric palliative care must be developed
Support for pediatric assent and the mature minor doctrine
Community education regarding pediatric palliative care and DNR orders
http://bit.ly/DVtzB
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California’s Pediatric Palliative Care Benefit
Part 2 – The Waiver
What is the waiver?
A federally approved Medi-Cal demonstration project that enables children with certain CCS eligible medical conditions to:
receive curative treatments AND
home and community-based palliative care services provided by hospice agencies along with home health and other appropriate service providers
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PPC within the context
of California’s Benefit
Concurrent with curative therapies
Family-centered communication
Focus on quality of life and relief of
suffering
Use of multidisciplinary team
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Key Reading
• Friebert S. NHPCO Facts and Figures: Pediatric
Palliative and Hospice Care in America.
Alexandria, VA: National Hospice and Palliative
Care Organization, April 2009.
• When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-
of-Life Care for Children and Their Families. 2003
Board on Health Sciences Policy.
• Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care for Children
• The Hospice and Palliative Medicine Approach to
Caring for Pediatric Patients – UNIPAC series -
AAHPM
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Online Resources for Pediatric
Palliative Care
Fast Facts: http://bit.ly/cj9UJ
NHPCO Pediatric Palliative Care
Standards: http://bit.ly/4qpV9
NHPCO Pediatrics Facts & Figures:
http://bit.ly/Dj7oX
Pallimed: http://www.pallimed.org