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Table 1 Description of eligibility criteria

From: Ethical, legal, and social aspects of health technologies for home-based paediatric palliative care – a systematic review

Criterion

Inclusion

Exclusion

Population

Children aged 0–18 years with a LL and/or LT conditions in need of PPC, their families, HCPs, social workers, and teachers.

Adults aged 19 years or older, children with chronic or long-term illnesses not in need of PPC, and cancer survivors.

Concept

Use of health technologies for PPC with or without interactions between children and/or families with healthcare or social care providers or teachers.

Relevant papers need to include ELSA (i.e. papers pertaining to explicit value discussions, official legal frameworks, and/or ties to social institutions outside the home) that are reported as findings.

 

Context

Home-based care.

A home may also be an institution that is regarded as the child’s home.

Outside home-based care.

Types of literature

Empirical studies regardless of design published in peer-reviewed journals.

Any reviews, conference abstracts, conference proceedings, study protocols, guidelines, position papers, discussion/theoretical papers, reports, PhD or master’s theses, letters, comments, editorials, books, or book chapters.

Language

Studies limited to papers published in the Danish, English, Norwegian, Swedish, French, and Italian languages.

 

Time period

Studies published between January 2013 and November 2023