The importance of advance care planning for children with chronic respiratory failure

Alison H Miles¹, Alison E Turnbull^{2

3

4}, Laura M Sterni⁵

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery (OACIS) Group, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Eudowood Division of Pediatric Respiratory Sciences, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Editorial

Alison H Miles et al. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;55(10):2489-2491.

doi: 10.1002/ppul.24979. Epub 2020 Aug 10.

Alison H Miles¹, Alison E Turnbull^{2

3

4}, Laura M Sterni⁵

¹ Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery (OACIS) Group, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Eudowood Division of Pediatric Respiratory Sciences, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Conflict of interest statement

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