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'They Told Me to Take Him Somewhere Else': Caregivers' Experiences Seeking Emergency Dental Care for Their Children
- Source :
- Pediatric dentistry. 39(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine pediatric emergency dental trends in two safety net clinics and care-seeking experiences of young children's caregivers.Administrative data were used to describe and compare emergency first visits of children ages zero to six years in a community-based (CC) and a University-based (UC) safety net clinic from 2010 to 2014. In-person interviews were conducted with 11 caregivers of children ages zero to six presenting for nontrauma-related emergency visits at the UC from January to August 2016. Interviews were transcribed verbatim, coded, and analyzed inductively using Atlas. ti.7.5.9.The UC experienced significantly more emergency first visits (33 percent) than the CC (five percent, P0.001), and the majority of these UC visits were referrals. Caregivers were dissatisfied with the experienced barriers of access to care and lack of child-centeredness, specifically the referral out of the dental home for emergency dental care.A considerable proportion of children's first visits at dental safety net clinics was emergency related. Children's caregivers voiced issues related to access to care and lack of child-centered care. Discordance was apparent between how professional organizations define the dental home and how caregivers experience it in the context of emergency care.
- Subjects :
- Male
Emergency Medical Services
Outpatient Clinics, Hospital
Dental Clinics
Infant, Newborn
Infant
Health Services Accessibility
Hospitals, University
Caregivers
Patient Satisfaction
Child, Preschool
Patient-Centered Care
North Carolina
Humans
Female
Community Health Services
Child
Referral and Consultation
Dental Care for Children
Safety-net Providers
Retrospective Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19425473
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pediatric dentistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid..........ab2c6fd7fc300a88821e273ce0d03de1