A document prepared by the Steering Committee of the EAPC task force on palliative care for children and adolescents
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In March 2006, a group of healthcare professionals from Europe, Canada, Lebanon and the USA met in Trento, Italy to discuss the current situation of paediatric palliative care in Europe.
The group was called the International Meeting for Palliative Care in Children, Trento (IMPaCCT) (see Box 1) and is sponsored by the Maruzza Lefebvre d’Ovidio Foundation (Rome), Fondazione Livia Benini (Florence) and the No Pain for Children Association (Trento). In 2007 the IMPaCCT group became an EAPC task force. Over three days, paediatric palliative care services in different countries were compared, paediatric palliative care was defined, best practices identified and minimum standards agreed.
The result is a united document for Europe, defining and identifying standards of care for children with life-limiting and terminal illness. IMPaCCT recommends that these standards be implemented in all European countries.
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