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Comprehensive care programmes for children with medical complexity

Background: Children with medical complexity (CMC) represent a small, but growing, proportion of all children. Regardless of their underlying diagnosis, by definition, all CMC have similar functional limitations and high healthcare needs. It has been…

Tags: 2024, Adolescent, adverse outcome, August List 2024, Bias, Caregiver, Child, Child Health Care, Child Preschool, Children With Medical Complexity, Chronic Disease, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cohen E, community care, Comprehensive Health Care, Connell TG, Controlled Before-After Studies, controlled clinical trial (topic), Cox GR, D’Aprano AL, Decision Making, Emergency Health Service, Emergency Ward, Epidemiology, Functional Status, Gibb SM, Harvey AR, Health Care, Health Care Cost, Health Care Delivery, health care need, health care organization, Health Care Personnel, Health Care Quality, Health Care Utilization, health Insurance, Hospital Admission, hospital readmission, Human, Humans, Infant, Interrupted Time Series Analysis, life satisfaction, Medical Care, Meehan E, Merrick N, meta analysis, Mountford NJ, Multidisciplinary team, Multiple Chronic Conditions, Non-Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, outcome assessment, Patient Safety, Perception, Preschool Child, Primary Health Care, Program Evaluation, pulmonary aspiration, Quality Of Health Care, Quality Of Life, Randomized Controlled Trial (topic), Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, remuneration, Review, social determinants of health, Social Worker, statistical bias, Survival Rate, Telemedicine, Therapy, Transition To Adult Care, Williams K

Palliative care for infants with life-limiting conditions: Integrative review

Background: Infants with life-limiting conditions are a heterogeneous population. Palliative care for infants is delivered in a diverse range of healthcare settings and by interdisciplinary primary healthcare teams, which may not involve specialist…

GPs' role in caring for children and young people with life-limiting conditions: a retrospective cohort study

Background GPs are rarely actively involved in healthcare provision for children and young people (CYP) with life-limiting conditions (LLCs). This raises problems when these children develop minor illness or require management of other chronic…

Pediatric Palliative Telehealth Care from Hospital to Hospital: A Pilot Project (QI653)

Objectives: * Explain a novel method for creating pediatric palliative care resources using telehealth technology. * Describe preliminary data demonstrating project feasibility and satisfaction.

The integration of palliative care in Dr Congo "a Model of Sustainability": A field study

Background and context: In DR Congo, many cancer patients in the terminal phase of their condition have minimal access to palliative care. There is a combined effect of poverty, the deteriorationofthe health system and the absenceof a well-defined…

Referring a patient and family to high-quality palliative care at the close of life: "We met a new personality... with this level of compassion and empathy"

Palliative care services are increasingly available to primary care physicians for both expert consultations and services to seriously ill patients. The United States now has more than 1400 hospital-based palliative care teams and more than 4700…

Tags: 2009, Backlog, Connor SR, Empathy, Family Relations, Hospices, Humans, Journal Article, Journal Of The American Medical Association, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Palliative Care/standards, Patient Care Team, Primary Health Care, Quality Of Health Care, Referral And Consultation, Social Support, Teno JM

Challenges in using opioids to treat pain in persons with substance use disorders

Pain and substance abuse co-occur frequently, and each can make the other more difficult to treat. A knowledge of pain and its interrelationships with addiction enhances the addiction specialist's efficacy with many patients, both in the substance…

Impact of euthanasia on primary care physicians in the Netherlands.

BACKGROUND: There is only limited knowledge about the emotional impact that performing euthanasia has on primary care physicians (PCPs) in the Netherlands., OBJECTIVE: To obtain more insight into the emotional impact on PCPs of performing euthanasia…

Adolescent psychopharmacology: drugs for mood disorders

This article reviews mood disorders in children and adolescents, the diagnostic criteria, and important differential diagnoses to be considered. Critical points in the treatment of mood disorders and comorbid conditions and the important role the…

Tags: 2006, Adolescent, Adolescent Medicine Clinics, Antidepressive Agents/adverse effects/therapeutic use, Antimanic Agents/adverse effects/therapeutic use, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/epidemiology, Backlog, Bolfek A, Comorbidity, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Humans, Jankowski JJ, Journal Article, Mood Disorders/diagnosis/drug therapy/epidemiology, Primary Health Care, Safety, Suicide/prevention & control, Summergrad P, Waslick B

Care at the front line: Clinical decisions in the management of pediatric acid-related disorders

2005

Tags: 2005, Abdominal Pain/etiology, Asthma/diagnosis, Backlog, Child, Diagnosis, Differential, Gastroesophageal Reflux/diagnosis, Gold BD, Helicobacter Infections/diagnosis, Helicobacter pylori, Humans, Journal Article, Primary Health Care, The Journal Of Pediatrics

Chronic illness and disability

2005

Tags: 2005, Adolescent, Adolescent Transitions, Backlog, Bmj (clinical Research Ed.), Chronic Disease/psychology/therapy, Disabled Persons/psychology, Educational Status, Emotions, Family Health, Humans, Journal Article, Mental Health, Patient Compliance, Patient Transfer, Primary Health Care, Sawyer S, Yeo M

Managing children's pain

Primary care supports for children with chronic health conditions: identifying and predicting unmet family needs

OBJECTIVE: To examine unmet needs among families of children with chronic health conditions treated in primary care settings and to identify predictors of these needs. METHOD: Primary care physicians referred 83 caregivers of children with chronic…

Continuity of care, self-management behaviors, and glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes

BACKGROUND: The influence of continuity of care on outcomes of care for patients with type 2 diabetes is poorly understood. OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationships between continuity, glucose control, and advancement through stages of change for…

New guidelines for the management of migraine in primary care

Despite repeated initiatives over the past decade, migraine remains under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated in everyday clinical practice. The Migraine in Primary Care Advisors (MIPCA) group has produced new guidelines for migraine…

Designing a mixed methods study in primary care

BACKGROUND: Mixed methods or multimethod research holds potential for rigorous, methodologically sound investigations in primary care. The objective of this study was to use criteria from the literature to evaluate 5 mixed methods studies in primary…

Tags: 2004, Annals Of Family Medicine, Backlog, Creswell JW, Fetters MD, Health Services Research/methods, Humans, Ivankova NV, Journal Article, Models, Multi-site Ethics, Primary Health Care, Qualitative Research, Research Design, Theoretical

Seeing the Same Doctor: Determinants of Satisfaction with Specialty Care for Disabled Children

Patient satisfaction and change in medical care provider: a longitudinal study

Longitudinal data from The Rand Corporation's Health Insurance Experiment were used to test the hypothesis that provider continuity can be modeled as one behavioral consequence of patient satisfaction. Bivariate and multivariate analyses (controlling…

Tags: 1983, Backlog, Consumer Satisfaction, Continuity Of Patient Care, Davies AR, Journal Article, Longitudinal Studies, Marquis MS, Medical Care, Ohio, Personal Health Services, Primary Health Care, Probability, Ware JE

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