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- Apr 2006
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether racial and ethnic disparities in health care use differ for physical and behavioral health conditions. DATA SOURCES: Secondary analysis of the 1996–1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study of children aged…
- Nov 2005
OBJECTIVES: To compare the presentation of young children with abdominal trauma caused by high-velocity accidental (HVA), low-velocity accidental (LVA), and inflicted injury, and to test the hypothesis that a delay in care is highly predictive of an inflicted injury. METHODS: We…
- Oct 2005
OBJECTIVES: To identify systematic problems in coordinating care for inner-city minority youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). DESIGN: Focus group study. SETTING: We recruited participants from inner-city minority communities in a single metropolitan area. We…
- May 2005
BACKGROUND: Prior research identified foster care children using Medicaid eligibility codes specific to foster care, but it is unknown whether these codes capture all foster care children. OBJECTIVES: To describe the sampling bias in relying on Medicaid eligibility codes to identify…
- Jan 2005
Some children living with life-shortening medical conditions may wish to attend school without the threat of having resuscitation attempted in the event of cardiopulmonary arrest on the school premises. Despite recent attention to in-school do-not-attempt-resuscitation (DNAR) orders,…
- May 2004
OBJECTIVE: Although prior population-based studies have found that children in foster care use more mental health services than their Medicaid peers, less is known about how different experiences in foster care impact the likelihood of mental health service use. The primary aim of this…
- Jan 2004
OBJECTIVES: Despite great needs, many children in foster care do not receive adequate medical care. Suboptimal care may be attributable in part to placement changes, which disrupt continuity of care by both a consistent surrogate parent and potentially a primary care physician. These…
- Dec 2003
BACKGROUND: Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and asthma incur similar health care costs that are greater than those of most children without these conditions. Preliminary findings suggest that children with emotional behavioral disorders, anxiety and depression,…
- Dec 2003
BACKGROUND: To help design population-based pediatric palliative care services, we sought to describe the hospital care received in the last year of life by children and young adults who died. We also determined the proportion with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) and tested whether…
- Jun 2003
OBJECTIVE: To determine the effectiveness of educational programmes for the self management of asthma in children and adolescents. DATA SOURCES: Databases of the Cochrane Airways Group, PsychINFO, reference lists of review papers, and eligible studies. REVIEW METHODS: Eligible…