Researchers found a significant association between neighborhood socioeconomic depression and missed clinic visits for children with medical complexity, according to a study published in Pediatrics.
In a video that accompanied the study online, Joanna Thomson, MD, MPH, attending physician in the division of hospital medicine at Cincinnati Children’s, said the research was meant to address how little was known about how neighborhood context influences the health of children with medical complexity, and specifically the medical complexity of chronic multisystem diseases, “resulting