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Improving Rural Pediatric Patient Management Through Streamlined High-Volume Patient Clinical Pathways Enhanced By Standardized Nursing Education For Care Confidence, Marie-Cassandre O. Macdonnell
Improving Rural Pediatric Patient Management Through Streamlined High-Volume Patient Clinical Pathways Enhanced By Standardized Nursing Education For Care Confidence, Marie-Cassandre O. Macdonnell
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Rural America creates a challenging, poorly financed environment for pediatric health. More than 20 million Americans live in areas with physician shortages too great to meet basic health need (Petlz et al., 2013). In comparing rural versus urban data, rural population experience a 7% higher rate of chronic health conditions (44% versus 37%), increased inpatient costs ($8, 507 versus $7, 174) and higher odds ratios for pediatric 30-day readmission. Findings from Khan et al., (2015) note that hospital readmission rates have higher odds ratios in pediatric patients (95% CI); of Caucasian ethnicity 0.74 [0.65–0.84] to 0.88 [0.79–0.99]); when admitted to …