Healthcare service use in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease: a questionnaire on patient and parent care experiences in Germany.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Paediatric inflammatory bowel disease (PIBD) patients require chronic care over the lifespan. Care for these patients is complex, as it is adapted for childrens' life stages and changing disease activity. Guideline based care for this patient group recommends a multidisciplinary approach, which includes in addition to paediatric gastroenterologists, nutritional and psychological care services. For PIBD patients, a discrepancy between available guideline-based multidisciplinary care and actual care has been found from the provider side, but to what extent patients experience this is unclear.

Objectives

To identify which healthcare services were used and whether socio-demographic, geographic or disease related factors have an influence on health service utilisation.

SUBMITTER: Boerkoel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10626645 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature