PEDIATRICS Vol. 104 No. 4 October 1999, pp. 978-981

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS:
Care Coordination: Integrating Health and Related Systems of Care for Children With Special Health Care Needs

Care coordination is a process that links children with special health care needs and their families to services and resources in a coordinated effort to maximize the potential of the children and provide them with optimal health care. Care coordination often is complicated because there is no single entry point to multiple systems of care, and complex criteria determine the availability of funding and services among public and private payers. Economic and sociocultural barriers to coordination of care exist and affect families and health care professionals. In their important role of providing a medical home for all children, primary care pediatricians have a vital role in the process of care coordination, in concert with the family.

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The following policy statement is a revision:

Care Coordination in the Medical Home: Integrating Health and Related Systems of Care for Children With Special Health Care Needs

Pediatrics 116: 1238-1244. [Full Text]

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