Review Article

Enhancing Quality of Life in Pediatric Palliative Care: Insights, Challenges, and Future Directions—A Systematic Review

Table 2

Documentary sources and search strings for all databases.

SearchDatabaseSearch stringsNo. of resultsDate (day/month/year)No. of clustersNo. of items

1Web of Science((((ALL = (palliative or long term illness or terminal illness or chronic illness)) AND ALL = (youngsters or childhood or child or children or pediatrics or “young adult”)) AND ALL = (well-being or quality of life or hrqol)) AND ALL = (family or education or school or hospital pedagogy or hospital classroom or classroom)) AND ALL = (inclusive education or education or inclusive or educative or learning or process)13374/8/20234129
2Web of Science((((ALL = (palliative or “long term illness” or “terminal illness” or “chronic illness”)) AND ALL = (youngster or child or pediatrics or “young adult”)) AND ALL = (wellbeing or “of life” or hrqol or “health related quality of life”)) AND ALL = (family or “hospital pedagogy” or “hospital class” or class)) AND ALL=(“inclusive education” or education or inclusive or educative or learning or process or school)8214/8/2023116
3Scopus(TITLE-ABS-KEY (palliative or “long term illness” or “terminal illness” or “chronic illness”)) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (youngster or child or pediatrics or “young adult”)) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (wellbeing or “quality of life” or hrqol or “health related quality of life”)) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (family or “hospital pedagogy” or “ospital class” or class)) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (education OR school OR inclusive OR educative OR learning OR process OR “inclusive education”)5237/8/2023
4Dialnet PlusALL (cuidados paliativos, calidad de vida, pediatri)47/8/2023
5ScienceDirect Elsevier“Palliative care” AND (child OR pediatrics) AND (“quality of life” OR wellbeing) AND (“hospital pedagogy” OR “education” OR “school” OR “inclusive education”)36637/8/2023
6Eric“Pediatric palliative care program” AND quality of life AND child AND school2797/8/2023
7SciELOALL (hospital pedagogy)98/8/2023
8WorldWideScience“Palliative care” AND (child OR pediatrics) AND (“quality of life” OR wellbeing) AND (“hospital pedagogy” OR “education” OR “school” OR “inclusive education”)9588/8/2023
9PubMed((((Palliative or “long term illness” or “terminal illness” or “chronic illness”) AND (youngster or child or pediatrics or “young adult”)) AND (wellbeing or “quality of life” or hrqol or “health related quality of life”)) AND (family or “hospital pedagogy” or “hospital class” or class”)) AND = (“inclusive education” or education or inclusive or educative or learning or process or school)12158/8/2023