Family and Provider Experiences With Longitudinal Care Coordination for Infants With Medical Complexity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parents in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) report low self-confidence managing their children's ongoing medical and social needs. While bedside nurses provide critical support for families throughout their NICU admission, there may be a role for nursing coordination throughout hospitalization, discharge, and in the transition to outpatient care.

Purpose

This program evaluation explores parent and provider experiences of a novel longitudinal care coordination program for infants with medical complexity from the NICU through their first year of life post-discharge.

Methods

First, a sequential exploratory mixed-methods approach was used to evaluate parental experiences (n = 5 interviewed followed by n = 23 surveyed). Provider perspectives were elicited

SUBMITTER: Dallas A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9810763 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature