Clinical Research Directory

Emergency Care Action Plans for Infants with Medical Complexity

An Emergency Care Action Plan (ECAP) is a tool intended to be helpful to providers when treating a child with complex medical needs during an emergency. Once created, ECAPs are added to the Electronic Health Record (EHR), shared with the child's caregiver(s), and kept up by all of those involved in a child's care. The goal of this study is to measure important health outcomes (ex. inpatient days, emergency department visits) in terms of the use of the ECAP for infants discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This study will also measure other real-time potential challenges related to the use of the ECAP including, but not limited to, if it is being used, if providers and caregivers want to use it, and if they keep using it over a long period of time.

Bridging Hospital to Home for Children with Medical Complexity and Their Families

The goal of this observational study is to evaluate an innovative pediatric transitional care unit called the Jeroen Pit Huis (JPH). The primary objective of our study is to investigate whether an intermediate stay between hospital and home in the JPH have a favourable effect on healthcare consumption, patient, parent and family-relevant quantitative outcome measures, compared to discharge directly from a hospital ward. Parents will be asked to complete several questionnaires on three different time points (at discharge, 3 and 12 months of follow up).