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. 2015 Dec;62 Suppl 5(Suppl 5):S419-24.
doi: 10.1002/pbc.25675. Epub 2015 Sep 23.

Standards for the Psychosocial Care of Children With Cancer and Their Families: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Lori Wiener  1 , Anne E Kazak  2 , Robert B Noll  3 , Andrea Farkas Patenaude  4 , Mary Jo Kupst  5
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Standards for the Psychosocial Care of Children With Cancer and Their Families: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Lori Wiener et al. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2015 Dec.

Abstract

Pediatric oncology psychosocial professionals collaborated with an interdisciplinary group of experts and stakeholders and developed evidence-based standards for pediatric psychosocial care. Given the breadth of research evidence and traditions of clinical care, 15 standards were derived. Each standard is based on a systematic review of relevant literature and used the AGREE II process to evaluate the quality of the evidence. This article describes the methods used to develop the standards and introduces the 15 articles included in this special issue. Established standards help ensure that all children with cancer and their families receive essential psychosocial care.

Keywords: cancer; child; family; pediatric; psychosocial; standards.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: Mary Jo Kupst has served as a consultant to the Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation for the Standards Project. Mattie Miracle has also provided some travel and conference support for the think tanks.

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Phases in the development of standards for the psychosocial care of children with cancer and associated tasks.
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