ReviewItalian journal of pediatrics2021
The child with medical complexity.
Review in Italian journal of pediatrics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- Telling is Caring: Prioritizing the Best Interests of Dying Children.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2026Article
- Evolution of Clinical Fragility and Medication Burden in Children with Medical Complexity: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Home-Based Parenting Strategies and Challenges of Primary Parental Caregivers of Children With Medical Complexity in Japan: A Qualitative Study.Child: care, health and development · 2026Article
- The impact of the Indiana Complex Care Coordination Collaborative (IC4) on caregivers of children with complex medical conditions.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Coping as a mediator between family stressors and behavioural adjustment in siblings of children with progressive life-limiting conditions: a multilevel longitudinal study.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Effect of requiring advanced respiratory support on disaster-related anxiety among caregivers of children with medical complexity: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Gastroenterologically relevant high alert medications prescribed to children with chronic diseases-a consensus-driven single-center pilot study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Complex Care Needs of People with Technology Dependence in Disaster Situations: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Associations among parental self-efficacy, symptom burden in children with medical complexity, and their use of health services.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Associations Between Care Environments and Environmental Modifications in the Daily Living Settings of Children with Medical Complexity.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Safe Enough: Subjective Determinations in Hospital Discharge for Patients With Medical Complexity.Pediatrics · 2025Article
- Prenatal multidisciplinary counseling for fetal congenital anomalies: A narrative review.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2025Review
- High-Risk Infant Developmental Outcome Is Associated with Medical Complexity and Neighborhood Opportunity.The Journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Airway Colonization in Children with Medical Complexity: Challenges and Management Strategies.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- The Experience of Caring for a Medically Complex Child in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study of Parental Impact.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Clinicians' perspectives of a care coordination model for children with medical complexity.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Religious-spiritual coping among family members of children requiring continuous and complex care: a mixed-methods study.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2025Article
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- Exploring the Association between Complexity of Care, Medical Complexity, and Length of Stay in the Paediatric Setting Using a Nursing Minimum Data Set: A Study Protocol.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Utilization of Healthcare Services in Patients with Chronic Diseases under 18 Years Old: Differences and Contributing Factors.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Children with medical complexity represent a big challenge for the physicians, their families and the society as well. Although there is no clear definition of this type of patients, they are affected by a chronic, often very severe condition for their whole life. They also represent a huge cost for the health care system due to their needs of continuous assistance.In this review we summarized the definitions of child with medical complexity. Then we illustrated the strategies to treat and take care of these children in order to look at them not as a burden or a cost but as an opportunity to growth and improve as clinicians and to improve the society, to give them the best life they can live.We also wanted to give voice to the physicians, the parents and the children themselves to really show and understand what are their experiences and their feelings in dealing with their conditions. We concluded with the description of one example of children with medical complexity: prematurity. We discussed the progresses in their treatment so far in order to illustrate what is the future of pediatrics. Since it has been more and more acknowledged that every child with medical complexity is unique, the future of pediatric is to organize an individualized approach and to "see things with the eye of a child".
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