Comprehensive Care of Children With Medical Complexity

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Quality of Life, Chronic Disease, Chronic Illness

In brief

Under the auspice of 'Specially for Children and with funding from the Seton Healthcare Family, Children's Comprehensive Care (CCC) in Austin, Texas, has developed a coordinated and integrated model of care for children with medical complexity. This model serves as the patient's Medical Home (primary care provider, (PCP)), and uses extensivists (physicians who work as hospitalists and within the PCP) and nurse practitioners to provide continuous care between hospital and primary care. This model seeks to provide a system of care that more fully meets the complex needs of the child and family, while implementing innovations in care delivery, fully implementing family-centered practice, and "embedding" behavioral, psychiatric, psychosocial, and palliative care. This study is a randomized intervention trial that evaluates the effectiveness of the newly-created Children's Comprehensive Care on two outcomes: utilization and cost of care; and, evaluation of the experience of parents and their families.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01834456

Run by

Seton Healthcare Family

People needed

300

Starts

2011-11-01

Expected to finish

2016-09-30

Last updated by the study team

2019-10-09

Who can join

Age: any, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• between the ages of birth to 17 years
• has profound autism and one other significant medical condition
• are determined by the study team to be complex when considering multiple diagnoses, functional impairment, use of medical technology, or contextual needs, or by a combination of these things

You may not qualify if…

• primary diagnosis is related to an oncologic diagnosis
• primary diagnosis is Cystic Fibrosis
• has Down Syndrome and does not have significant comorbid diagnoses

Where it is running

• Children's Comprehensive Care at 'Specially for Children — Austin, Texas, United States

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