Discourse about childhood chronic conditions has transitioned in the last decade from
focusing primarily on broad groups of children with special health care needs to …

Background: The number of adolescents with chronic health conditions (CHCs) continues to
increase. Medication nonadherence is a global challenge among adolescents across …

Routinely collected health data, obtained for administrative and clinical purposes without
specific a priori research goals, are increasingly used for research. The rapid evolution and …

Since the early twentieth century, medical and public health innovations have led to
dramatic changes in the epidemiology of health conditions among infants, children, and …

Importance National analyses suggest that approximately 1 in 5 US hospitals closed their
pediatric units between 2008 and 2018. The extent to which pediatric hospitalizations at …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Advanced understanding of modifiable predictors of
health care use in pediatric chronic illness is critical to reducing health care costs. We …

Children with medical complexity have extensive needs for health services, experience
functional limitations, and are high resource utilizers. Addressing the needs of this …

Children with medical complexity, although a small fraction of the pediatric population, are
important due to their high levels of health care spending, unmet health care needs …

Objective To describe hardships experienced by families of children with medical complexity
(CMC) and compare them with those experienced by families of children with asthma. Study …

Video Abstract BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Children with medical complexity (CMC)
comprise a subgroup of children with severe chronic diseases. A conceptual definition for …