Exploring parent views of community matrons.
The children's national service framework advocates children's services being designed and delivered around the needs of the child. This article details parental perception of and satisfaction with a paediatric community matron service that aims to reduce emergency admission of children aged 0-16 with respiratory disease. Parents valued the individualised holistic relationship formed between the community matron, child and family. One in four said their child's hospital attendance was reduced.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D017046:Cost Savings; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000191:economics; D064691:Nurses, Community Health; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000191:economics; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom