BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Child health is influenced by biomedical and socioeconomic factors. Few studies have explored the relationship between community-level income and inpatient resource utilization for children. Our objective was to analyze inpatient costs for children hospitalized with common conditions in relation to zip code-based median annual household income (HHI). METHODS Retrospec...

BACKGROUND An individual's socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with health outcomes and mortality, yet it is unknown whether accounting for SES can improve risk-adjustment models for 30-day outcomes among Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services beneficiaries hospitalized with heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS We linked clinical data on hospitalized patients with heart failure in the Ge...

OBJECTIVE to understand the interactions of nurses managing nursing care for the hospitalized child with a chronic condition. METHOD Theoretical and methodological references were used, Complex Thought and grounded theory, respectively. In the study 18 subjects have participated arranged in three groups: nurses, nursing technicians and family members. A semi-structured interview was used as t...

www.hospitalpediatrics.org doi:10.1542/hpeds.2013-0122 Address correspondence to Alan R. Schroeder, MD, 751 S Bascom Ave, San Jose, CA 95128. E-mail: [email protected] HOSPITAL PEDIATRICS (ISSN Numbers: Print, 2154 1663; Online, 2154 1671). Copyright © 2014 by the American Academy of Pediatrics FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: The authors have indicated they have no fi nancial relationships re...

The purposes of this qualitative study were to understand the meaning of the interactions experienced by the family during a child's hospitalization, identify the family's demands and construct a theoretical model representing this experience. Symbolic Interactionism was adopted as a theoretical and Grounded Theory as a methodological reference framework. Data were collected by means of observa...

BACKGROUND Increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has been observed in Ghana as in other developing countries. Past research focused on NCDs among adults. Recent researches, however, provide evidence on NCDs among children in many countries, including Ghana. Beliefs about the cause of NCDs among children may be determined by the socioeconomic status of parents and care givers...

BACKGROUND Family-centered care (FCC) involves holistic care and requires cooperation with the family in planning, intervention, and the evolution of the care that is being provided. Many previous studies have provided results that indicate the importance of the family's involvement in pediatric care, but there is still resistance in doing so within the organizational culture of the hospitals i...

The impact of a hospital environment on children has rarely been investigated. Recently, however, the perspective of hospitalized children has been taken into account. Being hospitalized and facing an illness represent a dramatic change in a child's daily life, and the quality of the environment may influence the child's experiences. The aim of this study was to investigate the experiences of c...

The Live Library in Hospitals Project is a strategy adopted by several health institutions for the purpose of providing hospitalized children and adolescents the reading mediation of infant-juvenile stories through professionals and volunteers capable of this function. This study aimed to find out to what extent the reading of stories strategy proposed by this project in hospitals can be a comm...

UNLABELLED Theme: Professional issues Aim: To understand nurses' perspective about the presence and participation of parents/caregivers during child's hospitalization. METHOD Quantitative, descriptive and exploratory study. Data collection in 2011 through questionnaire. RESULTS The sample comprised 146 nurses that work in paediatric wards in five different hospitals in the North of Portugal...