AIMC Topic: Child Health Services

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Perspectives of Child Life Specialists After Many Years of Working With a Humanoid Robot in a Pediatric Hospital: Narrative Design.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: Child life specialists (CLSs) play an important role in supporting patients and their families during their visits to a children's hospital. Although CLSs are equipped with considerable expertise to support families during some of the mos...

Effects of robotic rehabilitation on walking and balance in pediatric patients with hemiparetic cerebral palsy.

Gait & posture
BACKGROUND: The most prominent characteristics of hemiparetic cerebral palsy (hCP) children are structural and functional asymmetries. These children have low walking speeds, endurance and poor balance. The robotic walking devices repeat and experien...

Predicting Changes in Pediatric Medical Complexity using Large Longitudinal Health Records.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Medically complex patients consume a disproportionate amount of care resources in hospitals but still often end up with sub-optimal clinical outcomes. Predicting dynamics of complexity in such patients can potentially help improve the quality of care...