title: Palliative care in pediatrics.
abstract: Palliative care for children is not about dying; rather, it is about helping children and families to live to their fullest and to restore wholeness while facing complex medical conditions. Family centered pediatric palliative care is the art and science of improving quality of life and attending to suffering for children with life-threatening conditions; the basic principles are presented and discussed in this article.
authors.affiliation: Palliative Care, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA. bhimelstein@chw.org
authors.forename: Bruce P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Himelstein
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012067:Religion