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Patient age | Reason for admission | Need-unique use for family-Link | Length of stay (days) | Distance (miles) |
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12 years | Multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis | Single father unable to visit because of limited transportation and finances. There were also 8 other siblings at home. Father and older brother provided primary incomes and were unable to take time away from work | 45 | 50 |
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15 months | Leukemia | Parents and siblings living far from Sacramento | 13 | 50 |
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17 years | Quadriplegia admitted for rehabilitation | Parents and siblings living far from Sacramento | 30 | 220 |
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17 years | Chemotherapy | Divorced parents each had a unit to communicate with daughter because of distance | 79 | 94 |
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4 years | Pneumonia | Single mother not able to spend time with patient and distance | 12 | 50 |
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12 years | Severe traumatic brain injury | Large extended family. Family-Link also utilized to allow family members to participate in patient’s rehabilitation regimen to prepare for home therapy | 27 | 30 |
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14 years | Myasthenia gravis | Set up for ill grandfather and other family members who were unable to visit on a regular basis and wanted to be able to check on patient’s progress | 208 | 10 |
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38 years | Spinal cord injury | See Section 3.1.1 | 68 | 1,400 |
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14 years | Tuberculosis, isolation | Family-Link utilized to allow communication for two teenage friends both in isolation and in adjacent rooms | 23 | 76 |
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14 years | >90% total body burn injuries | Patient able to attend 8th grade graduation using Family-Link | 195 | 750 |
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15 years | Struck by motor vehicle, multiple trauma. | See Section 3.1.2 | 21 | 210 |
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11 years | Leukemia and dilated cardiomyopathy | Extended family wanting to visit but difficult because of long distance | 12 | 150 |
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4 years | Spinal cord injury | Recently separated parents were unable to visit at the same time because of domestic issues and conflicting work schedules | 46 | 217 (father) 94 (mother) |
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16 years | Pneumonia and respiratory isolation | The patient and family lived in Nevada. Mother was only source of income and unable to take time off from work | 59 | 127 |
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18 months | Polycystic kidney disease status postrenal transplant | Family-Link was set-up for patient to view his father and sibling at home who were unable to spend time with him due to distance | 95 | 144 |
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3 years | Motor vehicle accident with anoxic brain injury | The patient’s mother wanted to withdraw medical support, but was concerned because the patient’s father was incarcerated and unable to be involved in the decision-making process. Using Family-Link, a connection was established with the patient’s father in prison. He was able to see his son’s unresponsiveness and was able to provide further support to help with the decision to limit medical care and withdraw support | 22 | 65 |
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15 years | Spinal cord injury with lower-extremity paraplegia | See Section 3.1.3 | 32 | 65 |
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6 years | Pneumonia | Dad, siblings, and grandmother not able to visit often because of limited transportation options | 9 | 25 |
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10 years | Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis | Family from city located 5 1/2 hours. One parent stayed at home with other children and visited daily | 19 | 323 |
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6 months | Leukemia | Young sibling at home, grandparents in Los Angeles | 14 | 387 |
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10 years | Rehabilitation | Extended hospital stay and parent must stay with siblings at home | 28 | 24 |
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2 years | Cystic fibrosis | Siblings staying with grandparents, unable to visit | 21 | 166 |
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2 years | GI surgery | Sibling and father at home, unable to visit during the week | 23 | 73 |
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3 years | Pharyngeal cellulitis, dehydration | Siblings and father at home. Father had to work and could not bring other siblings to visit | 5 | 36 |
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3 years | Leukemia | Family (aunt and cousins) located in Philadelphia, unable to visit | 6 | 2,458 |
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10 years | Traumatic brain injury | Parent worked full time and unable to visit hospital frequently | 10 | 30 |
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7 years | Sepsis | Sibling at home with grandparent, unable to visit | 12 | 17 |
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8 years | Removal of brain tumor | Family support network located in Jordan, unable to visit | 11 | 7,448 |
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10 years | Pneumonia | Siblings unable to visit due to distance | 7 | 170 |
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12 years | Midgut volvulus | Father unable to visit due to distance and work schedule | 5 | 174 |
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9 years | Trauma, impaled buttocks | Siblings staying with friends, unable to visit | 7 | 40 |
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10 years | Femoral fracture | Family at home, distance too far to travel | 6 | 82 |
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10 years | Perforated appendicitis | Ill family member (aunt), unable to visit hospital | 13 | 25 |
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15 years | Ladd’s procedure | Grandmother unable to visit | 8 | 1,458 |
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14 years | Hematochezia, inflammatory bowel disease | Siblings and parents unable to visit due to distance | 5 | 136 |
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13 years | Multisystem trauma | Grandparents and extended family located in Pennsylvania | 25 | 1,485 |
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