Pediatric palliative care at home by Home Care Unit: how home nurses feel?

Purpose: Our Home Care Unit (HCU) undertakes close to twenty pediatric palliative care engagements per year. We investigated the factors underlying such care by independent home health nurses.

Methods: This was a retrospective, observational, single-center study.

[Palliative care for children in onco-hematology: Role of a specific home-care team].

Background/objective: Our home-care unit (HCU) is specialized for pediatric cancer patients and has a strong palliative care activity. We believe that the introduction of home-care services can influence the place of palliative care and of death as well as the length of hospitalization. We aimed at describing characteristics and care course of patients treated in our HCU, and tried to identify some factors contributing to home care at the end of life.

[Intravenous chemotherapy at home: A pediatric monocentric experience].

Introduction: Our home care unit (HCU) developed the administration of IV chemotherapy at home for some pediatric oncologic patients.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective monocentric analysis, leading to identify patients with at least one sequence of chemotherapy at home in 2015.

Results: Two hundred and forty four sequences of home chemotherapy have been administered in 2015.