Annotated Bibliography: Analysis of a Public Health Research Article

This annotated bibliography analyzes the research paper by Altman et al. (2018) which focuses on the perceptions and experiences of healthcare providers in Australia when working with children with medical complexities (CMC). The study uses a qualitative approach, gathering data through interviews with stakeholders, including children, families, and healthcare professionals. The paper explores the challenges faced by children with CMC, such as financial struggles and societal acceptance, and proposes integrated healthcare as a potential solution. The bibliography critically assesses the study's methodology, highlighting both its strengths, such as ethical considerations and data analysis, and weaknesses, such as the organization of interviews and the classification of specialists. Overall, the bibliography acknowledges the study's contribution to understanding the interaction between healthcare professionals and patients while pointing out areas for improvement in future research.

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Altman, L., Zurynski, Y., Breen, C., Hoffmann, T., & Woolfenden, S. (2018). A qualitative
study of health care providers’ perceptions and experiences of working together to care for
children with medical complexity (CMC). BMC Health Services Research, 18(1). doi:
10.1186/s12913-018-2857-8
This research paper focuses on studying the perception of healthcare providers in Australia
when working with children who have some or the other medical complexity. The authors of
this article have identified how children with CMC have a wide range of issue and owing to
this, how their daily lives are difficult and different than children of their age group. These
children need a lot of care and attention from the family members as well. Furthermore, this
article explores how the secondary and primary healthcare setting of Australia helps these
children to achieve stability in life.
The study method which the authors applied was a simple qualitative study which focused on
analyzing both the primary and the secondary data. Data collection was done by various
structured and semi-structured interviews of various stakeholders of this study such as the
children, their families and the healthcare professionals. Since not a lot of research had been
done on this particular area in Australia, the secondary data consisted mostly of research
articles and relevant web sources to understand more about the CMC and the corresponding
methods to deal with them.
The authors are aware of the importance of a proper structure in a study. This article has
followed all the standards guidelines for conducting a legitimate study for the purpose of
better understanding of how the case of young children with CMCs is to be approached.
Here, the authors have successfully investigated all the factors which make it difficult for the
children with CMCs to lead a normal life and various factors came into considerations. These
factors were a financial struggle of the families, not being accepted by the society, proper
medical treatment not being available and much more. The authors have identified how this
situation has impacted the lives of all the people associated with the patients, and the urgency
to curb the situation. Here, integrated healthcare has been proposed as a solution for these
cases. It has been quite ambitious of the authors to give such a direct recommendation
without even evaluating the other factors which may affect this in the longer run.

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The study was conducted in Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN), a tertiary
paediatric hospital network in New South Wales (NSW) Australia, was formed in 2010
bringing together The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children’s Hospital
Randwick. Gaining access to this facility was probably easy for the authors, and it worked
out well for the study since it is one of the most popular facilities of Sydney for children. The
authors conducted their research here, as they had easy access to various case files with
CMCs and doctors who could further help the authors in gaining better and direct insights
into these cases to build a better case for the article.
While the study was conducted with all ethical consideration and measures, and without any
biases, it was noticed that the process of data collection could have been better. Interviews
offer great insight and help the author of the study to directly understand his or her concerns,
however, there could have been better ways of primary data collection. The interviews are not
solving the purpose because the way the questions have been classified is a little haphazard.
The lack of clear thought process is quite evident in this article. The study is well articulated,
however, it lacks a concise flow of thought as well. the classification made of specialists in
the final leg of the report is also not correctly identified and should have been based on
several other factors such as their domain, interest, cases handled, the complexity of cases
etc.
Conclusively, it is quite evident that the article is well-formed barring a few errors which
could have been easily rectified had the authors paid more attention to it. Furthermore, the
results obtained are well in sync with the data and the data analysis is carried out to the best
of the capabilities. While lack of planning is reflected in the study, overall it is able to do
justice to the topic it has chosen and the study is also able to inform the readers about how the
interaction between the healthcare professionals and the patients (here, children with CMC)
takes place in a normal sitting.