Open AccessDYNAMICS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE IN THE CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG
Author(s) -
Anatoliy S. Simakhodskiy,
С И Минченко,
А. Э. Ткаченко
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
rossijskij pediatričeskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2918
pISSN - 1560-9561
DOI - 10.18821/1560-9561-2017-20-1-40-43
Subject(s) - palliative care , st petersburg , medicine , restructuring , quality of life (healthcare) , medical care , nursing , family medicine , business , metropolitan area , finance , pathology
Palliative care is a system of medical measures aimed at maintaining the quality of life of patients with incurable, life-threatening and severely occurring diseases, at the highest possible for a given patient’s condition, a comfortable level for the person. At the same time the provision of palliative care for children differs considerably from adults. There was executed the analysis of the dynamics of the development of palliative care for children in the city of St. Petersburg for 2011-2015. Features of its implementation, changes in the number of those in need, the restructuring of hospital beds fund, the development of hospital substitution technologies, there are presented delivered guidelines for the different types of palliative care for children.