Telemedicine Reduces Absence Resulting From Illness in Urban Child Care: Evaluation of an Innovation
- 1 May 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in PEDIATRICS
- Vol. 115 (5), 1273-1282
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2004-0335
Abstract
Background. Common acute illness challenges everyone involved in child care. Impoverished inner-city families, whose children are most burdened by morbidity and whose reliance on child care is most important, are those least equipped to deal with this challenge.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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