title: Improvements in communication and relationship building are essential.
abstract: Understanding research priorities in children's palliative care is important for nurses, following the phasing out of the Liverpool Care Pathway, which has led to a change in palliative and end of life care ( Department of Health (DH) 2014 ). Advances in technology that can keep children alive for a long time is another area over which there is much debate ( Longden and Mayer 2007 ).
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000592:standards*; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*