Communication breakdown | 72 | 22 |
Disagreements about treatment | 45 | 13 |
Unrealistic expectations/excessive healthcare demands | 37 | 11 |
Family wishing to micromanage care | 32 | 10 |
Physical/verbal threats or disruptive behaviour | 21 | 6 |
Fear that resources are limiting treatment | 17 | 5 |
Difficulty in accepting prognosis given | 16 | 5 |
Discordant advice from clinical team | 16 | 5 |
Non-compliance with investigations/treatment plan/medication | 10 | 3 |
Not accepting child is medically fit for discharge | 9 | 3 |
Failure to attend clinic/meetings with clinicians | 8 | 2 |
Multiple/discordant decision-makers in family | 6 | 2 |
Advocating alternative medicine or untested treatments | 4 | 1 |
Disagreement about withholding/withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment | 1 | 0.3 |
Religious beliefs | 1 | 0.3 |
Other | 40 | 12 |