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Complex Care in Pediatrics: Great Progress, Greater Challenges

Issue title: Complex Care in Pediatrics: Great Progress, Greater Challenges

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Guest editors: Rishi Agrawal

Article type: Editorial

Authors: Agrawal, Rishi

Affiliations: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, La Rabida Children's Hospital, 225 E. Chicago Ave. #152, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Tel.: +1 312 227 4000; Fax: +1 773-363-1488; E-mail: ragrawal@luriechildrens.org

Keywords: Children with medical complexity, children with special needs, health care reform

DOI: 10.3233/PRM-150331

Journal: Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 71-74, 2015

Published: 2015
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Abstract

There has been tremendous recent growth in the field of pediatric complex care. Complex care programs are attracting the attention of policy makers at the national level. Key challenges for the field include development of a consensus method to identify children with medical complexity, promotion of high quality research, navigation of health care reform, and measures to promote professional identity and workforce development.

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