A better way: team care for children with special health care needs
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health)
- Author(s):
- Schor, Edward L., author
- Contributor(s):
- Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Palo Alto, CA : Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, August 2018
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Child Health Services Chronic Disease -- therapy Health Services Needs and Demand Patient Care Team Child Episode of Care Insurance, Health, Reimbursement Quality of Health Care Reimbursement Mechanisms Risk Adjustment Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Chronic illness in children often is accompanied by psychological, social, and financial challenges for the child and family. Achieving optimal health care and quality of life therefore requires comprehensive, patient- and family- centered care, which necessarily involves close collaboration among a health care team and links to community resources. Creating an effective team requires changes in the structure and operation of pediatric practices, as well as restructuring of reimbursement systems to provide incentives and support for this model of care. As the prevalence of chronic illness increases, it will be worth the necessary investments to achieve desirable and obtainable outcomes.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (10 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101744826 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101744826