Transitioning care from pediatric to adult pulmonology : ensuring best practices and optimal outcomes / Cynthia D. Brown, Erin Crowley, editors.

This book addresses an unmet need in the care of adolescents and young adults with lung disease. The increasing survival of young adults with childhood-onset pulmonary conditions is a testament to major advances in treatments and health care delivery. With the increase in survival of children with c...

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Other Authors: Brown, Cynthia D. (Editor), Crowley, Erin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Humana Press, [2021]
Series:Respiratory medicine (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Section 1: General Principles of Transition Care
  • Chapter 1. Development of Health Care Transition Policy and Concepts
  • Chapter 2. Transition Research: Approaches to Measurement and Outcomes
  • Chapter 3. Training Trainees: Creating a Better Workforce to Support Transition Care
  • Section 2: Psychosocial Considerations in Transition
  • Chapter 4. Development and Psychosocial Challenges for Self-Management and Maintaining Adherence to Chronic Therapies
  • Chapter 5. Parents in Transition: Moving from Providing to Supporting Roles
  • Chapter 6. Using a Socio-Ecological Framework to Guide Transition
  • Section 3: Best Practice Recommendations and Transition Outcomes in Specific Pulmonary Conditions
  • Chapter 7. Providing Care for a Changing CF Population
  • Chapter 8. Transition Care for Adolescents and Young Adults with Neuromuscular Disease and Chronic Pulmonary Care Needs
  • Chapter 9. Establishing a Medical Home for Asthma and Other Obstructive Lung Diseases
  • Chapter 10. Pulmonary Hypertension: Transition Challenges in the Current Therapeutic Era.