Relief needs coordination: CARE Canada

Coordination of care for children with special health care needs.

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...

Canada needs seniors' health care strategy: CMA report card.

A health care needs assessment of federal inmates in Canada.

Immediate Decision-making and Information Needs in Intensive Care Coordination

The aim of this study was to develop a theoretical model for information integration to support the decision making of intensive care charge nurses, and physicians in charge – that is, ICU shift leaders. The study focused on the ad hoc decision-making and immediate information needs of shift leaders during the management of an intensive care unit’s (ICU) daily activities. The term ‘ad hoc decis...

Care coordination and unmet specialty care among children with special health care needs.

OBJECTIVES Care coordination and the medical home may ensure access to specialty care. Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) have higher rates of specialty care use and unmet need compared with the general pediatric population. We hypothesized that care coordination, regardless of whether it was provided in a medical home, would decrease unmet specialty care needs among CSHCN and that...