An article introducing the PEDS HC has just been published in Health Services Insights, an open access journal.  The article, The interRAI Pediatric Home Care (PEDS HC) assessment: Evaluating the long-term community-based service and support needs of children facing special health care challenges, describes the PEDS development process, discusses the Suite, indicates the general content of the instrument, discusses scales developed from the items, and reports on published research using the instrument.

Many thanks to members of the ISD, especially our Canadian colleagues, for their help in moving this instrument along.  We now have a published instrument and manual, as well as an introductory article in a peer-reviewed journal.

Later this month, a paper presenting a case-mix model (RUG-like) for long-term pediatric home care will be submitted either to Health Services Insights or BMC Health Services Research.  This case-mix model, The Pediatric Expenditures Classification Model (PECM), has just over 20 groups and explains 40 percent of the variance in annual public home care expenditures in the development sample of over 2,500 children/youth.  Thanks to Mary James and Brant Fries for their assistance with this article.