Inequities in Time Spent Coordinating Care for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In the United States, caregivers of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) must navigate complex, inefficient health care and insurance systems to access medical care. We assessed for sociodemographic inequities in time spent coordinating care for CYSHCN and examined the association between time spent coordinating care and forgone medical care.

Methods

This cross-sectional study used data from the 2018-2020 National Survey of Children's Health, which included 102,740 children across all 50 states. We described the time spent coordinating care for children with less complex special health care needs (SHCN) (managed through medications) and more complex SHCN (resulting in functional limitations or requiring specialized therapies). We examined race

SUBMITTER: Vasan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10495536 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature