Articles of Interest on Children with Special Health Care Needs
from Jim Perrin, MD, prepared for Partnerships for Quality

American Academy of Pediatrics, Committees on Children with Disabilities and on School Health. Children with Health Impairments in Schools. Pediatrics, 1990; 86:636-638.

American Academy of Pediatrics. Committee on Quality Improvement and Subcommittee on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Diagnosis and evaluation of the child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Pediatrics. 2000; 105:1158-1170.

American Academy of Pediatrics. Committee on Quality Improvement and Subcommittee on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Treatment of the school-aged child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Pediatrics. 2001; 108:1033-1044.

Gortmaker SL, Perrin JM, Weitzman M, Homer CJ. An unexpected success story: Transition to adulthood of youth with chronic physical health conditions. J Res Adolescence. 1993; 3:317-336.

Hobbs N, Perrin JM, Ireys HT. Chronically Ill Children and Their Families. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1985.

Mashaw JL, Perrin JM, Reno VP (eds). Restructuring the SSI Disability Program for Children and Adolescents. National Academy of Social Insurance, Washington DC, 1996.

Newacheck PH, Hughes DC, Stoddard JJ, Halfon N. Children with chronic illness and Medicaid managed care. Pediatrics 1994; 93:497-500.

Newacheck PW, Hughes DC, English A, Fox HB, Perrin JM, Halfon N. The effect on children of curtailing Medicaid spending. JAMA. 1995; 274:1468-1471.

Newacheck PW, Stein REK, Walker DK, Gortmaker SL, Kuhlthau K, Perrin JM. Monitoring and evaluating managed care for children with chronic illnesses and disabilities. Pediatrics. 1996; 98:952-958.

Perrin EC, Gerrity S. There's a demon in your belly: Children's understanding of illness. Pediatrics 1981; 67: 841-849.

Perrin EC, Newacheck P, Pless IB, et al. 1993. Issues involved in the definition and classification of chronic health conditions. Pediatrics 91:787-793

Perrin JM, Kahn RS, Bloom SR, Davidson S, Guyer B, Hollinshead WH, Richmond JB, Walker DK, Wise PH. Health care reform and the special needs of children. Pediatrics. 1994; 93:504-506.

Perrin JM, MacLean WE. Children with chronic illness, the prevention of dysfunction. Ped Clin NA l988; 35:1325-1327.

Perrin JM, Shayne MW, Bloom SR. Home and Community Care for Chronically Ill Children. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Perrin JM, Stein REK. Reinterpreting disability: Changes in SSI for children. Pediatrics. l991; 88: 1047-1051.

Perrin JM, Thyen U. Chronic illness and its impact on development and behavior, in Levine MD, Carey WB, Crocker AC (eds), Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, 3rd edn, WB Saunders, Phila, 1999: 335-345.

Stein RE, Westbrook LE, Bauman LJ. The questionnaire for identifying children with chronic conditions: a measure based on a noncategorical approach. Pediatrics 1997; 4:513-21.

West J(ed). The Americans with Disabilities Act: From Policy to Practice. Milbank Quarterly, 1991; 69:Suppl 1/2, 1-360