TY - JOUR T1 - Patterns of health service utilisation by children with intellectual disabilities require specific responses to reduce health inequalities JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs DO - 10.1136/ebnurs-2022-103562 SP - ebnurs-2022-103562 AU - Michael Brown AU - Lynne Marsh Y1 - 2023/01/11 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/early/2023/01/11/ebnurs-2022-103562.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Nicholson E, Doherty E, Guerin S, Schreiber J, Barrett M, McAuliffe E. Healthcare utilisation and unmet health needs in children with intellectual disability: a propensity score matching approach using longitudinal cohort data. J Intellect Disabil Res. 2022 May;66(5):442–453. doi: 10.1111/jir.12927. Epub 2022 Mar 14.Practitioners need to respond to the health disparities of children with intellectual disabilities.Cohort data comparisons designs are necessary to identify healthcare use and impact on health outcomes.An intellectual disability is a lifelong developmental condition experienced by some 2% of the population. Due to their health concerns, children with intellectual disabilities can present with multiple comorbidities and are two to four times more likely to experience unmet health needs than those without intellectual disabilities. The complexity of health needs is associated with the intellectual disability. Consequently, many require access to … ER -