1997
Ensuring High-Quality Alternatives While Ending Pediatric Inpatient Care as We Know It
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“…Among the 112 children with chronic conditions, 26 (32%) had received home technology-assisted care (tracheostomy, mechanical ventilation, and parenteral or enteral nutrition) before the study (26). A third of the unscheduled PICU admissions was attributable to a preventable event (n ϭ 36) according to an adapted from McConnochie et al (29) classification. These preventable events were significantly less frequent in the group of children receiving technology-assisted care (n ϭ 7; 19%) than in the others (n ϭ 29; 28%).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Among the 112 children with chronic conditions, 26 (32%) had received home technology-assisted care (tracheostomy, mechanical ventilation, and parenteral or enteral nutrition) before the study (26). A third of the unscheduled PICU admissions was attributable to a preventable event (n ϭ 36) according to an adapted from McConnochie et al (29) classification. These preventable events were significantly less frequent in the group of children receiving technology-assisted care (n ϭ 7; 19%) than in the others (n ϭ 29; 28%).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Alternative services such as ambulatory units and short stay units (Browne & Penna 1996; Coleman & Finlay 1996) have been introduced in other areas to try and address the continued problem of increasing hospital admission rates (McConnochie et al . 1997; Meates 1997).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To make discharge decisions at other times requires additional clinical evaluations and additional communication. Notably, in-home nursing is a form of alternative setting care 16 that may be able to address each of these reasons for apparently unnecessary admissions and prolonged hospital stays.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
