Medically Complex Child
Subtitle: The Transition to Home Care
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9783718605200
Subjects: Health systems & services; Paediatric medicine; Rehabilitation; Sociology; Human Services; Foster Care Services; Pediatrics; Social Science; Medical / Nursing; Services for; General; Health Care Delivery; Health & Fitness / General; Chronic Diseases; Chronically ill children; Foster home care; Home care
First sentence: The proliferation of medical technologies in the last two decades has presented medicine and social services with a new set of challenges: even as more and more is possible, and children survive who had no hope of doing so twenty years ago, new problems in their care, new ethical choices, new demands on professionals and social and medical systems have also proliferated.