Care coordination for children with special health care needs: a cohort study
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Care coordination for children with special health care needs: a cohort study
BACKGROUND Care coordination is widely recognized as a key element of care for patients with chronic and complex medical conditions and their families. In care for children with special health care needs the Family Pediatrician (FP) plays a central role as care coordinator. This study aims to evaluate the FPs' activities of care coordination for children with special health care needs in the pe...
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Coordination of care is an essential function of pediatric primary care, needed most by children with special health care needs (CSHCN). Although complex, its necessity has become better recognized with the recent increase in attention in the United States to the comprehensive "medical home" model of care. RECENT FINDINGS Coordination is highly dependent on effective communi...
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BACKGROUND Approximately 750,000 children in the United States with special health care needs will transition from pediatric to adult care annually. Fewer than half receive adequate transition care. METHODS We had conversations with key informants representing clinicians who provide transition care, pediatric and adult providers of services for individuals with special health care needs, poli...
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OBJECTIVES To explore how care coordination changes conceptually and practically in primary care practices when implementing the medical home and to identify reasons for different types of changes. METHODS Six years after a 2003-2004 national learning collaborative to implement the medical home model for children with special health care needs, we examined care coordination in 12 pediatric pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Italian Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1824-7288
DOI: 10.1186/s13052-017-0342-3