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Margaret McManus, MHS; Harriette Fox, MSS; Stephanie Limb, MA; Polly Arango, BA; Peter Armstrong, MD; Richard Azizkhan, MD; Richard Behrman, MD; Russell Chesney, MD; Atul Grover, MD, PhD; Vidya Bhushan Gupta, MD, MPH; Ethan Jewett, MA; M. Douglas Jones Jr, MD; Wun Jung Kim, MD, MPH; John Lewy, MD; Donald Lighter, MD, MBA; Holly Mulvey, MA; Richard Pan, MD, MPH; Robert Schwartz, MD; Calvin Sia, MD; Christopher Stille, MD, MPH; James Stockman, MD; Vera Tait, MD; Thomas Tonniges, MD; Peters Willson, BA

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009;163(3):200-202.

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The availability of pediatric subspecialty care is critically important to the health and well-being of infants, children, and adolescents. Moreover, timely collaboration with pediatric subspecialists is an essential element of the standard of care for children: the community-based medical home. The medical home model of care, with a generalist physician as the leader, has been shown to produce considerable economic¹ and patient-level benefits.^2-3 In this model, primary care . . . [Full Text of this Article]

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO PEDIATRIC SUBSPECIALTY CARE?


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The Federal Expert Work Group on Pediatric Subspecialty Capacity

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