title: Bridging the gaps in chronic illness care for children.
abstract: Most disease management programs target the health of populations, not individuals. That's a successful strategy in adults, particularly for the high-cost, relatively high-frequency conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. A Seattle hospital is showing that the principles of disease management are effective even among children, where high-cost conditions are much less frequent.
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000145:classification* / Q000628:therapy; D019988:Children with Disabilities / Q000145:classification*; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012984:Software; D014481:United States