Transitioning Medical Care: Through Adolescence to Adulthood

Description

This book provides a guide to the complexities of medical care through adolescence and into adulthood. The principles of transition, the management of patients and parents, and developmentally appropriate adolescent health care are discussed and evaluated. The academic importance of understanding long-term outcomes of treatments and diseases that began in childhood is also covered. This book aims to help readers build a multidisciplinary transition team and details the barriers encountered in this process and the ways to overcome them. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction: What Do Patients Worry About? (Hadley Wood, Dan Wood)....Pages 1-9 History of Adolescent Care in Urology (Christopher Woodhouse)....Pages 11-21 Adolescence: An Overview (Joanna Begent, Jane Simpson, Lara Gamper)....Pages 23-35 Metrics and Guidelines (Alun Williams, Abigail Jenkins)....Pages 37-45 Information Transfer (Dan Wood)....Pages 47-51 Managing the Parents (William G. Reiner, Dominic Frimberger)....Pages 53-62 The Importance of the Specialist Nurse Role as Part of the Lifelong Care of Congenital Conditions (Winnie Nugent)....Pages 63-76 Barriers to Transition (Wendy F. Bower, D. Michael Whishaw, Caroline Dowling, Yves Heloury)....Pages 77-83 Developmentally Appropriate Adolescent Health Care: An Essential Prerequisite for Positive Transition Experiences (Deborah Christie, Gail Dovey-Pearce)....Pages 85-98 Quality and Safety in Transitional Urologic Care (Jessica H. Hannick, Martin A. Koyle)....Pages 99-118 Building the Multidisciplinary Transition Team (Andrew Baird)....Pages 119-124 Political Concerns in Transitioning Medical Care (Joshua D. Roth, Rosalia Misseri)....Pages 125-137 Taking a Service Forward: The Adolescent and Adult Care of Major Congenital Anomalies—The Move from Adolescent to Lifelong Care (Göran Läckgren, Anders Stenbäck, Gillian Barker, Johan Heinius)....Pages 139-148 Back Matter ....Pages 149-152