Improving the transition between paediatric and adult healthcare: a systematic review
Archives of Disease in ChildhoodPublished 8 March 2011
Ryan Crowley, Ingrid Wolfe, K Lock, Martin McKee
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All six interventions that resulted in significant improvements were in studies of patients with diabetes mellitus, with glycosylated haemoglobin level, acute and chronic complications, and rates of follow-up and screening used as outcome measures.
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The most commonly used strategies in successful programmes were patient education and specific transition clinics (either jointly staffed by paediatric and adult physicians or dedicated young adult clinics within adult services). It is not clear how generalisable these successful studies in diabetes mellitus will be to other conditions.
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