Diversity of kidney care referral pathways in national child health systems of 48 European countries.
Velibor TasicVidar O EdvardssonEvgenia PrekaLarisa PrikhodinaConstantinos J StefanidisRezan TopalogluDiamant ShtizaAshot SarkissianThomas Mueller-SachererRena FataliyevaIna KazyraElena LevtchenkoDanka PokrajacDimitar RoussinovDanko MiloševićAvraam EliaTomas SeemanMia FaerchInga VainumaeJanne KatajaMichel TsimaratosIrakli RtskhiladzePeter F HoyerGeorge ReuszAtif AwanDanny LotanLicia PeruzziNazim NigmatullinaNasira BeishebaevaEdite JerumaAugustina JankauskieneOlivier NielValerie Said-ContiAngela CiuntuSnežana PavićevićMichiel OosterveldAnna BjerreMarcin TkaczykAna TeixeiraAdrian C LunguAlexey TsyginVesna StojanovićLudmila PodrackaTanja Kersnik LevartMar Espino-HernándezPer BrandströmGiuseppina SpartaHarika AlpayDmytro IvanovJan DudleyKomiljon KhamzaevDieter HaffnerJochen EhrichPublished in: Frontiers in pediatrics (2024)
Gaps and fragmentation of pediatric health services may lead to the risk of delayed or inadequate referral of European children with kidney disease to pediatric nephrologists. The diversity of patient pathways outside of normal working hours was identified as one of the major weaknesses in the service chain.