OBJECTIVES: Many youth with special health care needs have difficulties transferring to adult medical care. To address this, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau has made receipt of transition services a core performance outcome for community-based…
OBJECTIVE: To describe the proportion of youth with special health care needs (YSHCN) who are receiving services for medical transitions and to describe which sociodemographic and health care-related factors are associated with receiving transition…
OBJECTIVE: To examine health care utilization and expenditure patterns for children with disabilities. METHODS: Secondary data analysis was conducted of the 1999 and 2000 editions of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), a nationally…