BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Advance care planning (ACP) is increasingly regarded
as the gold standard in the care of patients with life-limiting illnesses. Research has focused …

Background: Pediatric advance care planning differs from the adult setting in several
aspects, including patients' diagnoses, minor age, and questionable capacity to consent. So …

Background: Pediatric advance care planning is advocated by healthcare providers
because it may increase the chance that patient and/or parent wishes are respected and …

Background: A prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting disease raises complex ethical,
emotional, and medical issues. Studies suggest that 40%–85% of parents decide to …

Background: Decisions about medical indication are a relevant problem in pediatrics.
Difficulties arise from the high prognostic uncertainty, the decisional incapacity of many …

THE CONCEPTION and initiation of a Seven Year Plan is a positive indication of Iran's
awareness of world conditions and of the urgent necessity for it to raise the standard of living …

THE'Il MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL decree, upon nomination by the Government. Its main duty
will he the approval of projects and budgets passed by the Plan Commission of the MIajlis …

Advances in prenatal diagnostics and fetal therapy raise important ethical issues,
particularly in the case of severe, life-limiting diseases (LLD). For parents, a prenatally …

Background Research on advance care planning (ACP) has focused on adults, but ACP is
also being practiced in pediatrics (pACP). Health care providers may have to deal with …

Background Advance Care Planning promotes end-of-life care conforming to patient wishes.
It is recommended for severely ill children, but there is little research on the specific needs …