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The mass killing at a Connecticut elementary school was in the news the day I read the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) clinical report on supporting a family after the death of a child. The collective grief from this tragedy has affected the families, the community, and the nation. More often, however, grief results from the loss of one child's life due to disease, an accident, or infant death. Pediatricians usually are aware of a patient's death resulting from an illness, but may not be informed of one that occurs in a hospital or emergency department if they are not part of the care team.
This prescient clinical report provides pediatric clinicians with a guide to actively help parents and siblings after the death of a child. The foll…