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Revista de Salud Pública

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Abstract

TIRADO-PEREZ, Irina S.  and  ZARATE-VERGARA, Andrea C.. Application of the Association for Children's Palliative Care (ACT) criteria at a pediatric reference institution in the Colombian Caribbean. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2018, vol.20, n.3, pp.378-383. ISSN 0124-0064.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v20n3.60797.

Objective

To assess the existence of a population susceptible to pediatric palliative care using the classification of the Association for Children's Palliative Care (ACT).

Materials and Methods

Descriptive, retrospective study. The data included in clinical records of the pediatric population aged 0-18 years and attended at the Hospital Infantil Napoleón Franco Pareja in the city of Cartagena, Colombia, were reviewed.

Results

2 718 patients were included and classified according to ACT groups in group I with 462 patients; group II with 61 patients; group III with 29 patients; and group IV with 1 195, representing 4.5% of the total population attended by the institution

Conclusions

The study found a population susceptible to pediatric palliative care, which requires establishing measures to complement and provide comprehensive care.

Keywords : Palliative care; hospice care; pediatrics (source: MeSH, NLM).

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