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I am conducting research on the prevalence of at-home support for children with specific medical needs. Specifically, I am interested in understanding the situation of children living with:
• Heart defects
• Tube feeding issues

The requested data would be as follows:
1. The estimated number of children currently living with heart defects and/or tube feeding issues.
2. The number of children with these conditions who have received at-home support services in the last five years (broken down by year).
3. The number of children with these conditions currently awaiting at-home support services (broken down by year for the last five years).
4. The number of children with these conditions who have requested at-home support services in the last five years (broken down by year).
5. The number of children with these conditions who are currently in receipt of at-home support services (broken down by year for the last five years).
6. The estimated number of children with these conditions who are eligible for at-home support services (broken down by year for the last five years).
7. Additionally, I would appreciate any insights into the challenges associated with finding or extrapolating this data, such as variations in assessments/criteria or inconsistencies in data tagging of patients.

Heart defects and-or tube feeding issues in children.110724.docx