Children with Complex Health Care Needs
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Patients with multiple chronic conditions occupy a growing percentage beds in children’s hospitals and utilize a disproportionate share of health care resources. Greater attention to this population has the potential to improve quality of care and simultaneously reduce its cost.
In this Special Issue in Children we focus on children with medical complexity. We seek to assemble a collection of reviews exploring the care of this important group of children.
We look forward to receiving your contributions. We are interested in the medical care of this population, as well as social and epidemiological aspects.
Prof. David E. Hall
Guest Editor
Please submit your abstract by email (children@mdpi.com) before 12 December 2016
Deadline for full-manuscript submissions: 28 February 2017
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- children with medical complexity
- medically complex children
- severe chronic disease
- palliative care
- technology dependence
- Chronically critically ill children
- Multisystem chronic disease
- Chronic complex conditions
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Published Papers
Children - ISSN 2227-9067