Continuing Care

Continuing competence in selected health care professions.

Health services professionals are confronting the challenge of maintaining and improving competence over the course of lengthy careers in diverse practice specialties. This article reviews the efforts of a selection of health care professions to ensure lifetime competence and reviews some of the challenges encountered in these efforts. Although each profession has its own issues, significant ge...

Brief Telephone Continuing Care Therapy for Adolescents

Continuing mobile care for Katrina's children.

About the author: I am a community pediatrician and since January 2006 have served as chief medical officer of Children’s Health Fund (CHF), a national not-for-profit organization based in New York that supports a national network of 24 programs that provide comprehensive health care services to medically high-risk children and families. Patients served include the homeless, those who live in r...

Funding for social care: the continuing conundrum.

The continuing evolution of pediatric emergency care.

Every day, approximately 80 000 children seek emergency care in US emergency departments (EDs), and 20% of all children in the United States will have at least 1 ED visit each year.1,2 Yet the needs of children historically have received little attention in the emergency medical services system.3 Emergency medical services are a relatively new component of our national health care system, and, ...