Pediatric Palliative Care Tree Model

The Pediatric Palliative Care Tree model was developed in response to the identified barriers related to the referral process and case management.

The Model identifies:

• Roles to manage pediatric palliative care in the community
• A process to ensure seamlessness and continuity of pediatric palliative care including:
  • Identifying an initial community contact person and team facilitator who would in turn, identify the appropriate team members, based on patient and family needs, and develop contact list and facilitating Team meetings to clarify roles and communication pathways.
• Barriers to implementation of the model:
  • Funding
  • Website development and a maintenance
  • Education
  • To maintain access to expert advice around the clock
  • Unavailability but ongoing development of provincially or nationally accepted standards of care and guidelines.

An overview of the tree model is shown below: