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This is a companion document for the Victorian Government policy, Advance care planning: have the conversation; A strategy for Victorian health services 2014–2018.
It discusses the ethical and practical aspects of advance care planning in the paediatric setting and provides an approach to decision making.
This guide is intended to help paediatricians and other clinicians approach advance care planning by offering ways of framing the discussion and examples of phrases that can be used.