Research Findings

Due to symptoms in patients, the hospital become a default choice in getting the quality care that is needed.

Communication within families, medical professionals and patients create an essential importance when determining the right treatment.

"Patients have the right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment does not depend on project life expectancy whether long or short. Patients have the basic right to be free of unwanted treatments." (Berlinger, Jennings & wolf, 2013, p.5).

Decision making of a child's life creates communication barriers because of the child's age and understanding their illness and symptoms. Young children's understanding and knowledge of death was not discuss at any point of time during treatment. Therefore, they had no options in deciding what they wanted/support they need.

This video shows an interview about children asking questions about terminal illnesses.

Limitations:

There wasn't enough evidence within how decision makers thoughts in creating decisions. Due to many factors that occurs within treatment, they were many issues when it came to providing the right sources and support for the patient.

DNR (Do not Resuscitate) was a main issue that decision makers faced when creating decisions for the patient.

Due to this, research did not include how the caregivers made an agreement on the decision which resulted in creating communication barriers; along with shorter life expectancy for children.