Phillips Charles D, Truong Chau, Kum Hye-Chung, Nwaiwu Obioma, Ohsfeldt Robert
Department of Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas.
Clin Med Insights Pediatr. 2017 May 30;11:1179556517711445. doi: 10.1177/1179556517711445. eCollection 2017.
Little is known about services provided to children and youth (C/Y) discharged from an acute care facility. Recent research has provided a foundation for efforts to supplement or complement that early work. This research investigates post-acute care (PAC) in Texas. It focuses on what differentiates those discharges that receive PAC from those that do not and on what differentiates those C/Y who receive PAC in a health care facility from those who receive home health services. The results show that only 6.4% of discharges involving C/Y receive PAC and that many factors affected the 2 issues under investigation quite differently. These results clearly demonstrate the low prevalence of PAC use for C/Y and the clear preference of using PAC home health in this population.
对于从急症护理机构出院的儿童和青少年所接受的服务，人们了解甚少。近期的研究为补充或完善早期工作的努力奠定了基础。这项研究调查了得克萨斯州的急性后期护理（PAC）情况。它关注的是接受PAC的出院患者与未接受PAC的出院患者之间的差异，以及在医疗机构接受PAC的儿童和青少年与接受家庭健康服务的儿童和青少年之间的差异。结果显示，涉及儿童和青少年的出院患者中只有6.4%接受了PAC，而且许多因素对所调查的两个问题的影响差异很大。这些结果清楚地表明了儿童和青少年使用PAC的比例很低，以及该人群明显倾向于使用家庭健康PAC。
