ReviewEuropean journal of pediatrics2021
A systematic concept analysis of 'technology dependent': challenging the terminology.
Review in European journal of pediatrics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Initiating technology dependence to sustain a child's life: a systematic review of reasons.Journal of medical ethics · 2022Pooled it
- Complex Care Needs of People with Technology Dependence in Disaster Situations: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The role of bioethics services in paediatric intensive care units: a qualitative descriptive study.BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
- The care burden for technology-dependent children with long-term home ventilation increases along with the improvement of their motor functions.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Hospitalizations of children and adolescents with complex chronic conditions in Brazil: a temporal analysis from 2009 to 2020.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- The factorial survey as an approach to investigate clinical decision-making: examining influences on a clinician's decision to initiate life-sustaining clinical technology for a child with spinal muscular atrophy type 1.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Development of a factorial survey for use in an international study examining clinicians' likelihood to support the decision to initiate invasive long-term ventilation for a child (the TechChild study).BMC medical research methodology · 2022Article
- Mothers' experiences of giving medicines to children with severe and profound intellectual disabilities-The impact on time.Child: care, health and development · 2022Article
- Psychosocial outcomes in Chinese survivors of pediatric cancers or bone marrow failure disorders: A single-center study.PloS one · 2022Article
- "What choice do you have knowing your child can't breathe?!": Adaptation to Parenthood for Children Who Have Received a Tracheostomy.SAGE open nursingArticle
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Abstract
There are an increasing number of children who are dependent on medical technology to sustain their lives. Although significant research on this issue is taking place, the terminology used is variable and the concept of technology dependence is ill-defined. A systematic concept analysis was conducted examining the attributes, antecedents, and consequences of the concept of technology dependent, as portrayed in the literature. We found that this concept refers to a wide range of clinical technology to support biological functioning across a dependency continuum, for a range of clinical conditions. It is commonly initiated within a complex biopsychosocial context and has wide ranging sequelae for the child and family, and health and social care delivery.Conclusion: The term technology dependent is increasingly redundant. It objectifies a heterogenous group of children who are assisted by a myriad of technology and who adapt to, and function with, this assistance in numerous ways. What is Known: • There are an increasing number of children who require medical technology to sustain their life, commonly referred to as technology dependent. This concept analysis critically analyses the relevance of the term technology dependent which is in use for over 30 years. What is New: • Technology dependency refers to a wide range of clinical technology to support biological functioning across a dependency continuum, for a range of clinical conditions. It is commonly initiated within a complex biopsychosocial context and has wide-ranging sequelae for the child and family, and health and social care delivery. • The paper shows that the term technology dependent is generally portrayed in the literature in a problem-focused manner. • This term is increasingly redundant and does not serve the heterogenous group of children who are assisted by a myriad of technology and who adapt to, and function with, this assistance in numerous ways. More appropriate child-centred terminology will be determined within the TechChild project.
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