Care coordination programs continue to be developed for children with special health care needs (CSHCN). The goals for these programs are to improve access, increase communication, and decrease the overall length of stay for CSHCN. Care coordination optimizes resources to support children's health and well-being early in their hospitalization and facilitates a smooth discharge process and transition to home. Providing care coordination for CSHCN requires collaboration from many disciplines. To achieve high-quality care coordination, early identification of medically complex pediatric patients on admission is optimal. For more efficient and timelier enrollment into our care coordination program, we created a best practice alert within our electronic medical record to help overcome the challenges in timely identification of CSHCN. The best practice alert has helped us to provide care coordination benefits to our patients earlier in their hospital course. The purpose of this paper is to describe a quality improvement initiative to improve the early identification of CSHCN on hospital admission through the development of a best practice alert.

继续为有特殊医疗保健需求的儿童 (CSHCN) 制定护理协调计划。这些计划的目标是改善 CSHCN 的访问、增加沟通和减少总逗留时间。护理协调优化资源以在儿童住院早期支持他们的健康和福祉，并促进顺利出院和回家过渡。为 CSHCN 提供护理协调需要多学科的合作。为了实现高质量的护理协调，最好在入院时及早识别医学上复杂的儿科患者。为了更高效、更及时地注册我们的护理协调计划，我们在电子病历中创建了最佳实践警报，以帮助克服及时识别 CSHCN 的挑战。最佳实践警报帮助我们在患者入院初期为患者提供护理协调福利。本文的目的是描述一项质量改进计划，以通过开发最佳实践警报来改进入院时 CSHCN 的早期识别。