Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
More than one in 10 children with medical complexity had an incident reported by home care agency staff, according to a multi-state study recently published in JAMA Network Open . Half of reported events were safety related and a quarter caused harm to the child.
"Children with medical complexity often require complicated home care regimens, such as gastrostomy tubes and invasive ventilation, but we have not really known how often healthcare safety issues might be happening at home, which makes it hard to track and make improvements to this type of care," said lead author Carolyn Foster, MD, MS
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