An Integrated Care Strategy for Pre-schoolers with Suspected Developmental Disorders: The Optimus Co-design Project that has Made it to Regular Care.

co-design neurodevelopment disorder preschool children quality improvement team care

Journal

International journal of integrated care
ISSN: 1568-4156
Titre abrégé: Int J Integr Care
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101214424

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
15 Apr 2021
Historique:
entrez: 6 5 2021
pubmed: 7 5 2021
medline: 7 5 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Multiple neurodevelopmental problems affect 7-8% of children and require evaluation by more than one profession, posing a challenge to care systems. The local problem comprised distressed parents, diagnostic processes averaging 36 months and 28 visits with 42% of children >4 years at referral to adequate services, and no routines for patient involvement. The co-design project was developed through a series of workshops using standard quality improvement methodology, where representatives of all services, as well as parents participated.The resulting integrated care model comprises a team of professionals who evaluate the child during an average of 5.4 appointments (N = 95), taking 4.8 weeks. Parents were satisfied with the holistic service model and 70% of children were under 4 at referral (p < 0.05). While 75% of children were referred, 25% required further follow-up by the team. The Optimus model has elements of vertical, clinical and service integration. Reasons for success included leadership support, buy-in from the different organisations, careful process management, a team co-ordinator, and insistent user involvement. Evaluating multiple neurodevelopmental problems in children requires an integrated care approach. The Optimus care model is a relevant showcase for how people-initiated integrated care reforms can make it into usual care.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33953649
doi: 10.5334/ijic.5494
pmc: PMC8051154
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Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Pagination

3

Informations de copyright

Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s).

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors have no competing interests to declare.

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