KIDZ
Coordinated integrated diagnostics and care at home for children, adolescents and their families in the canton of Basel-Stadt
KIDZ for children and adolescents offers a family-centered, holistic alternative to traditional hospitalization, which has a positive effect on the recovery of acutely ill children and their family life.
Current challenges:
- Hospital overload - seasonally limited bed capacity
- Interrupted family processes due to hospitalization
- Frequent hospitalization of chronically ill children and adolescents
- Hospital infections and multi-resistant pathogens
- Inefficient coordination of care and treatments due to silo mentality and lack of incentives for cooperation
- Lack of low-threshold integrative services
- High costs due to cost-intensive hospital structures
- Avoidable costs of early dismissal
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Cost-intensive (out-of-canton) transfers
- Unclear tariff structures: There are currently no specific tariffs for HaH models
- Lack of sustainable funding: Many HaH projects are still in the pilot phase without secure long-term funding
- Chronically overworked hospital staff - high burnout rates
How can we help you?
+41 61 201 01 01
Regular consultations
Mon to Fri, 08 - 12 h and 13 - 17 h
Urgent appointments
Mon to Fri 08 - 20 h
(during the Basel school vacations until 18 h.)
Sat 08 - 14 h
Sun 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. (incl. public holidays)
Emergencies
+41 61 201 01 01
KIDZ – Our solution:
Multi-professional collaboration at the patient's home bedside ensures a high quality of care in the safety of the family environment and strengthens families' health literacy.
The advantages of KIDZ
1. increased well-being of the child
- Familiar environment: Children feel safer and more secure at home, which promotes the healing process. This is particularly true for infants, children and adolescents with a chronic illness (CMC).
- Reduced stress: A stay in hospital can be stressful for children and their families. The home environment minimizes anxiety and stress.
- Individual support: Nurses and doctors can concentrate on the child's needs and take into account and include the family environment from their own perception.
2. support for the family
- Close to the family: Parents and siblings can be more closely and freely involved without being restricted by hospital rules or visiting times.
- Improved quality of life: Everyday family life is less burdened, especially if parents have other children or work commitments.
3. medical advantages
- Risk of infection: At home, children are exposed to a lower risk of hospital infections - including multi-resistant pathogens.
- Joint decision-making: Confidence in the treatment is strengthened and the family's adherence is increased. This leads to better health outcomes.
- Continuity of care: Treatment is closely monitored by specialized teams and can be flexibly adapted to the child's needs.
- Fewer medical errors: With individualized care, stronger patient loyalty and a stress-free environment.
- Better recovery: The familiar rhythm of sleep and nutrition at home supports recovery.
4. psychosocial benefits
- Normality: The sick children find it easier to rest in a familiar home environment. They have more contact with the family environment and find it easier to return to play and creative activities during their recovery.
- Avoid social isolation: In contrast to hospital, where they are separated from friends and social contacts, they remain more integrated in their social environment at home.
- Less burnout for medical professionals
5. involvement of parents in care & improvement of parents' health literacy
- Understanding of clinical pictures: Parents receive specific information about their child's illness, such as symptoms, risk factors and warning signs in the home context.
- Promote independence: Through guidance and support, parents take on a more active role in acute healthcare, which strengthens their self-confidence.
- Practical care skills: Parents learn how to perform basic nursing tasks and how to safely operate medical equipment (e.g. oxygen concentrators, infusion systems, monitoring devices) within a defined framework.
- Reduction of excessive demands: Care in a familiar environment with professional support is generally also more pleasant and less stressful for parents than in a hospital.
- Continuous support: Parents learn more easily how to meet their child's medical needs even after they have completed HaH care.
- Stress management: Parents learn how to deal with the emotional burden of their child's illness and at the same time strengthen the family's resilience.
- Promotion of preventive measures: Parents are informed about preventative aspects such as nutrition, exercise and hygiene.
- Establish healthy routines: HaH teams help parents to create a daily routine that integrates health-promoting behaviors, such as regular bedtimes or exercise.
- Long-term self-efficacy: Parents feel competent to actively promote their child's health even after treatment has been completed.
6. cost efficiency
- Reduced direct healthcare costs: Costs can be reduced for the healthcare system by avoiding inpatient hospitalization. International data shows that hospital-equivalent treatment at home saves costs in the healthcare system.
- Reduced indirect healthcare costs: One parent can usually look after sick and healthy children at home. This means less time off work for the other partner. There is also less time and money spent on travel or accommodation near a hospital.
7. individual and integrative care
- Individual therapy plans: Care can be better tailored to the specific needs of the child and the family's home situation.
- Integrative care: Integrative medical approaches such as external applications (e.g. compresses, massages) or remedies from federally recognized complementary medicine supplement the therapy and support healing in a natural way. In this way, holistic care can be ensured.
- Flexibility: Multi-professional teams can take care of concerns that arise at home in a targeted and low-threshold manner.
Examples of areas of application
International experience with KIDZ (for children and adolescents):
The KIDZ concept is gaining increasing international importance and shows great potential, particularly in adult medicine. Studies from countries such as Spain, the USA, Australia, and the UK show that providing home care for acutely ill patients can not only improve the quality of treatment but also reduce hospital stays and the associated costs. It also contributes to patient satisfaction, as the familiar environment has a positive influence on the healing process. The KIDZ concept also shows great potential in pediatrics for improving the care of children and adolescents. International studies, for example from Australia and Canada, show that home-based treatment models not only reduce the burden of hospital stays, but also promote the mental and emotional stability of children, as they can be cared for in their familiar surroundings.
The global trend towards patient-centered and family-centered Care concepts underscore the potential of «KIDZ» also in the field of pediatrics, in order to close gaps in careand improve the quality of life of young patients.
Children's health. With all our hearts. With us, your little ones are in the best hands. Feel free to give us a call.
Treatment spectrum with Youkidoc
Prevention is better than cure. We'll make time for that. Preventive examinations from newborn to adulthood, advice on developmental, nutritional and health issues in childhood and adolescence. Of course we also support you in the safe handling of your child's illnesses.
Location Youkidoc in Basel
Youkidoc is centrally located in the Gundeli area in Basel. Right behind the Basel SBB train station.
