Challenges to Caring for Injured Children With Special Health Care Needs in Emergency Settings
Five recommendations are presented based on the identified themes, grounded in improving care quality for CYSHCN: developing protocols to enable coordination and follow-up across disciplines; ensuring that staff are trained to handle dual priorities; engaging trained staff and resources; reviewing organizational protocols, policies, and practices to better accommodate CYSHCN and their families; and galvanizing organizational buy-in for change. In a future study, we will engage family caregivers to inform these recommendations.
Authors
- Gregory G. Homish (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2601-3283)
- Bonnie M. Vest (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3401-7367)
- Hector Osei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0175-2696)
- Javier J. Lasa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5146-4954)
- Tamara D. Simon
- Carroll M. Harmon
- Brooks Harmon
- Jihnhee Yu
- E. Brooke Lerner
- Denise F. Lillvis
- Kunal Chadha
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo (US)
- Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (US)
- Keck Hospital of USC (US)
- Jacobs Institute (US)
- University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Hospital Pediatrics
- Published
- 2026-03-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1542/hpeds.2025-008619
- Primary Topic
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00