IMPLEMENTATION OF A COVER PAGE MODEL TO CHILD HOME CARE

Introduction and aim: Continuous and coordinated care to children in home depends on easy access to data. A multidisciplinary team generates extensive information and large records that turn continuity of care a challenge. To organize information and coordinate care, we aimed to present a cover Page model to children home care, developed by the physician and the nurse of a home care team. Methods: we developed a cover page that consists of eight field groups intended to register the main aspects of care, developed from the health records of the institution and also based on a previously developed and validated passbook of continuous care. Results and conclusion: the cover page consists of a general identification of the children, its caregiver, birth date, admission date, and last internment date, and the following: 1) List of chronic (ordered in numbers) and acute (ordered in letters) problems based at International Classification of Primary Care; 2) devices (stomas, oxygen therapy, support ventilation); 3) specific common problems (seizures, asthma, wound care, others); 4) nutrition state; 5) complementary and secondary care (health professionals and specialists accompanying the child and its periodicity); 6) laboratory tests plan and its periodicity; 7) therapeutic plan (drugs, dosage, intervals); 8) vaccination and allergies. The team has a copy of the cover pages when visiting children at home. Cover page facilitates to find information, helps to arrange care and organizes the home visit with less possibility of failures and medical errors.