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| Title: | Recommendations for Dublin Paediatric Services |
| Authors: | Drumm, Brendan
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Sub-committee of Faculty of Paediatrics on |
| Affiliation: | Royal College of Physicians of Ireland |
| Publisher: | Royal College of Physicians of Ireland |
| Issue Date: | 15-Oct-2012 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/248932 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | There have been substantial developments in paediatrics in sub-speciality areas and
in the mode of health care delivery. A model paediatric service needs to reflect
these developments. The vast majority of admissions in the paediatric age group are
acute with a good prognosis. On the other hand, paediatric sub-specialty care looks
after conditions which are nearly always individuaiy rare. Thus there is a great
need for centralisation of this kind of expertise at least in terms of initial diagnosis
and management. Health Care delivery needs to be very flexible with an emphasis
on reducing inpatient care as far as possible. The care needs to be child centred,
and all the professional staff need to have expertise in children. Children's
hospitals tailor their services to the special needs of children, but this is more
difficult in a general hospital where the needs of children may not be well
considered. Children are different physically and emotionally from adults and for
most of their years are a dependent population requiring close contact with their
family. The prevention of illness is an important component of paediatric care.
Social factors have a major impact on child health and disease. The adult paradigm
of hospital care does not usually suit the paediatric population. For all of the above
reasons there is a well defined hierachy of care in paediatrics which combines and
cooperates with community paediatrics and child psychiatry. |
| Keywords: | PAEDIATRICS
HEALTH CARE |
| Appears in Collections: | Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI)
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