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Children, Volume 6, Issue 7

July 2019 - 5 articles

Cover Story: The article describes the role of the pharmacist within a pediatric accountable care organization (ACO) for patients with Managed Medicaid. Pharmacists at the ACO perform population health management and medication management to improve health and quality outcomes for the overall population served. Pharmacists are engaged in quality improvement initiatives, conduct medication therapy management, publish prescribing guidelines, perform academic detailing, and assist with clinical decision support to deliver high-value health care to its patients. The article details initiatives that pharmacists lead or collaborate on aimed at improving health outcomes in behavioral health and asthma management for its pediatric patients. View this paper.
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Articles (5)

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,966 Views
5 Pages

Anecdotal reports suggest migrant children at the US border have had to undergo age assessment procedures to prove to immigration officials they qualify for special protections afforded to those under age 18. There are a variety of methods to assess...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
25 Citations
14,524 Views
13 Pages

Immediate Effect of a Yoga Breathing Practice on Attention and Anxiety in Pre-Teen Children

  • Shirley Telles,
  • Ram Kumar Gupta,
  • Kumar Gandharva,
  • Babita Vishwakarma,
  • Niranjan Kala and
  • Acharya Balkrishna

Pre-teen children face stressors related to their transition from childhood to adolescence, with a simultaneous increase in academic pressure. The present study compared the immediate effects of 18 min of (i) high frequency yoga breathing with (ii) y...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,684 Views
5 Pages

Constructing Invisible Walls through National and Global Policy

  • Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba,
  • Allison Bovell-Ammon and
  • Diana Becker Cutts

Worldwide 37,000 people are forced to flee their homes every day due to conflict and persecution. The factors that lead people to leave their home countries often originate with economic deprivation and violence, escalated to a level that becomes a s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,442 Views
9 Pages

Pharmacist Involvement in Population Health Management for a Pediatric Managed Medicaid Accountable Care Organization

  • Catherine Kuhn,
  • Brigid K. Groves,
  • Chester Kaczor,
  • Sonya Sebastian,
  • Ujjwal Ramtekkar,
  • Joshua Nowack,
  • Christina Toth,
  • Olivia Valenti and
  • Charitha Gowda

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have emerged as an effective healthcare delivery model for managing quality and cost at a population level. Within ACOs, pharmacists are critical for the delivery of high-value health care, offering patients and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,063 Views
15 Pages

Preterm birth (<37 weeks’ gestation) has been associated with problems in social functioning. Whether social inhibition is specifically related to preterm birth and whether early parenting may protect against social inhibition difficulties i...

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Children - ISSN 2227-9067