MeSH: Emergency Service, Hospital/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data]
Parental experiences of the liminal period of a child’s fatal illness
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The article offers a description of parents’ experiences of their child’s ultimately fatal illness as it unfolds over the successive stages of medical treatment, in the context of the liminality theory. The parents (N = 23) were interviewed 1-4 years after their child’s death. The research method involved conducting narrative interviews with parents in order to obtain a…
A Tertiary Care-based Complex Care Program: Improving Care for Children With Medical Complexity
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OBJECTIVE: Children with medical complexity (CMC) have significant health care costs, but they also experience substantial unmet health care needs, hospitalizations, and medical errors. Their parents often report psychosocial stressors and poor care satisfaction. Complex care programs can improve the care for CMC. At our tertiary care institution, we developed a consultative complex care program…