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Medical home and continuity OSCE — complex care discharge and transition counselling
Observed structured encounter testing continuity assessment, care-coordination planning, ED loop closure and transition counselling.
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RACP General PaediatricsRACP DCEMRCPCH ClinicalRCPSC Pediatrics
Prompt
Station A is discharge planning for a child with medical complexity and fragmented specialty care. Station B is counselling for adolescent transition within the medical home.
Station objectives
- Assess continuity domains and medical-home status. [1] [2]
- Build a care-coordination plan with closed loops. [5] [6]
- Avoid dumping unpaid coordination onto caregivers. [7]
- Counsel structured transition steps. [8]
- Link non-emergency acute care back to the medical home. [9]
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- [9]Conners GP, Kressly SJ, Perrin JM, et al. Nonemergency Acute Care: When It's Not the Medical Home. Pediatrics, 2017.PMID 28557775
- [10]Szilagyi, Moira A Health Care Issues for Children and Adolescents in Foster Care and Kinship Care. Pediatrics, 2015.PMID 26416941
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