A consensus statement on health care transitions for young adults with special health care needs

This policy statement represents a consensus on the critical first steps that the medical profession needs to take to realize the vision of a family-centered, continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally competent health care system that is as developmentally appropriate as...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 2002-12, Vol.110 (6 Pt 2), p.1304-1306
Main Authors: Blum, Robert W, Hirsch, David, Kastner, Theodore A, Quint, Richard D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Health Services - organization & administration
Care and treatment
Child
Child Health Services - organization & administration
Chronic Disease - therapy
Chronically ill children
Continuity of Patient Care
Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration
Family
Health care
Health Planning Guidelines
Health Policy
Humans
Needs Assessment
Patient care
Patients
Pediatrics
People with disabilities
Transitions
United States
Young adults
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Summary:This policy statement represents a consensus on the critical first steps that the medical profession needs to take to realize the vision of a family-centered, continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally competent health care system that is as developmentally appropriate as it is technically sophisticated. The goal of transition in health care for young adults with special health care needs is to maximize lifelong functioning and potential through the provision of high-quality, developmentally appropriate health care services that continue uninterrupted as the individual moves from adolescence to adulthood. This consensus document has now been approved as policy by the boards of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275