Advanced cancer in children: how parents decide on final place of care for their dying child.

Aim: to explore retrospectively the decisions made by parents regarding their choice of place of care at time of death for their child with advanced cancer.

Design: cross-sectional descriptive study.

Analysis: interpretive phenomenological analysis.

Establishing nursing research priorities on a paediatric haematology, oncology, immunology and infectious diseases unit: involving doctors and parents.

Following a Delphi survey undertaken with nurses on a specialist children's unit to identify priorities for nursing research, this paper outlines the results of a survey to ascertain the views of doctors and parents regarding the results of the Delphi. This approach was in keeping with national guidance on multi-professional working in paediatric oncology and the importance of service-user involvement in planning and evaluating care. Convenience samples of doctors (n=16) and parents (n=10) were asked to rank the priorities previously identified by nurses.