ArticlePaediatrics & child health2014
Children who 'grow up' in hospital: Inpatient stays of six months or longer.
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- Care Beyond the Bedside: Creating Space for Families of Hospitalized Children with Medical Complexity.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Perspectives on non-emergent neonatal intensive care unit to pediatric intensive care unit care transfers in the United States.World journal of critical care medicine · 2024Article
- Patient, Caregiver, and Clinician Participation in Prioritization of Research Questions in Pediatric Hospital Medicine.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Palliative Care for Children in Hospital: Essential Roles.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Review
- Ensuring First Nations children's access to equitable services through Jordan's Principle: The time to act is now.Paediatrics & child health · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo describe the clinical course of all infants and children hospitalized for six consecutive months (180 days) or longer at a tertiary/quaternary children's hospital in Western Canada.
methodsA retrospective review of medical records for all eligible patients from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2012 at Stollery Children's Hospital (Edmonton, Alberta) was performed.
resultsA total of 61 patients experienced 64 eligible hospitalizations. The mean length of stay was 326 days, corresponding to a cumulative 20,892 hospital days (57.2 patient-years). Prevalent procedures resulting in long hospitalization were long-term tracheostomy ± ventilation in 32 (52%) patients, need for organ transplantation in 24 (39%) with completed transplantation in 15 (25%), and ventricular-assist devices (VADs) in seven (11%). Sixteen (26%) patients in the study group died, and 16 (26%) were placed in long-term care or out-of-home care at the end of their long hospitalization. Of children displaced from their family home, 14 (88%) were Aboriginal.
conclusionInfants and children who experience very long hospitalizations have complex illnesses, with substantial risk for mortality and a high rate of displacement from their families after discharge. Aboriginal children appear to be particularly vulnerable to displacement and problem solving for this population must be undertaken, involving a variety of stakeholders.
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