A home for medically complex children: The role of hospital programs
Cohen, Eyal Friedman, Jeremy Nicholas, David Adams, Sherri Rosenbaum, Peter
Cohen, Eyal
Friedman, Jeremy
Nicholas, David
Adams, Sherri
Rosenbaum, Peter
Abstract
The medical home is a conceptual model of continuous and comprehensive care provision that is associated with improved outcomes for children with special healthcare needs. Most applications of the medical home have focused on improving primary care services. Despite concerted efforts to apply the medical home concept to the care of children with special healthcare needs, many barriers to its implementation still exist, in particular, for the subset of children with special healthcare needs who are medically complex. Applying the medical home concept to hospital-based care coordination may benefit both children with complex conditions and their families, as well as the community-based providers.
Keywords
children with special health-care needs, hospitalists, hospitals, medical home, medically complex children
Date
2008
Type
Journal article
Journal
Journal for Healthcare Quality
Book
Volume
30
Issue
3
Page Range
7-15