Most children needing end-of-life care receive it in acute care settings

1. In this retrospective study, the majority of children studied died of chronic conditions or congenital illnesses in institutional settings (intensive care unit [ICU], emergency department [ED], or non-ICU institution). 2. Health care costs increased most notably during the last 5 months of life, more than doubling for children who died of congenital or perinatal […]