Objective: To apprehend the family's perception of the care provided by home care services to children and adolescents with special health needs. Method: Qualitative, exploratory-descriptive study, carried out with 15 family members of children and adolescents with special health needs served by Home...
This is a preliminary report of a study in progress to determine the home and community based special health care services (SHCS) required for children recovering from a critical illness. Methods: Observations (4-8/98) are reported for the first 105 consecutive pediatric ICU survivors studied. ...
health care services for children with special health care needs and their families.We use the National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs to estimate the prevalence of unmet mental health care needs among children with special health care needs (1-17 years old) and their families...
Title V of the Social Security Act, originally passed in 1935, evolved from a focus on individual medical services to a public health systems approach focusing on building family-centered, coordinated, comprehensive care in community settings. Most of the changes in all the sectors are the result...
The Warman Mennonite Special Care Home opened in 1968. Affiliated with the Saskatoon Health Region, the Home is able to take advantage of the many services the Region has to offer while maintaining independence in the day to day function of the home. The Care Home is a wonderful place to ...
Having a health care home has been shown to be associated with positive health outcomes for children with special health care needs (CSHCN), but its relationship to parental coping has not been established. The purpose of this study was to explore the health care home as a process of care ...
Objective To test associations between having a medical home and health services use and expenditures among US children with special health care needs (CSHCN). Design Cross-sectional analysis. Setting The 2003-2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys. Participants A total of 9816 CSHCN up to 17 years...
Although health service programs for adults regularly use case-mix payment systems, programs providing health services to children and youth rarely use such models. This research utilized Medicaid home care expenditures and assessment data on 2,578 children receiving home care in one large state in ...
special care baby unit A neonatal unit in hospital which provides a level of care defined by the British Association of Perinatal Medicine as one in which nurses can be assigned up to 4 babies—i.e., below the intensity of high-dependency care (baby:nurse ratio, 2:1) and intensive care...
People with developmental disabilities may need special care for their oral care health. Learn about the challenges and how to provide effective care for them.