Technology-dependent children: Transition from hospital to home
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Technology-dependent children: Transition from hospital to home

Barbara Boosfeld Unit Manager, Transitional Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
Mary O’Toole Social Worker, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London

Barbara Boosfeld and Mary O’Toole describe a planned approach to achieving home care for ventilator-dependent children within the context of family support needs and conflicting health service priorities

In recent years, advances in biomedical technology accompanied by a greater understanding of many disease processes have revolutionised the provision of health care. As our capacity to manage complex health problems has increased, however, so have the dilemmas of resource allocation and rationing of services, raising the stakes in the debates concerning both the quality and quantity of life.

Nursing Children and Young People. 12, 6, 20-22. doi: 10.7748/paed2000.07.12.6.20.c693

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