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Communication with children and adolescents about the diagnosis of their own life-threatening condition

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When a child is diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, one of the most challenging tasks facing health-care professionals is how to communicate this to the child, and to their parents or caregivers. Evidence-based guidelines are urgently needed for all health-care settings, from tertiary referral centres in high-income countries to resource limited environments in low-income and middle-income countries, where rates of child mortality are high. We place this Review in the context of chil...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1016/s0140-6736(18)33201-x

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Psychiatry
Oxford college:
Linacre College
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Medical Sciences Division
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
Oxford college:
Green Templeton, Green Templeton College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-6496-4859
Publisher:
Elsevier
Journal:
Lancet (London, England) More from this journal
Volume:
393
Issue:
10176
Pages:
1150-1163
Publication date:
2019-03-14
Acceptance date:
2018-12-06
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EISSN:
1474-547X
ISSN:
0140-6736
Pmid:
30894271
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
pubs:984031
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uuid:97c7d220-fd01-4616-9937-47321c7bdb01
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pubs:984031
Source identifiers:
984031
Deposit date:
2019-04-04

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