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Crossings:
A manual for Transition of Chronically Ill Youth to Adult
Health Care
Suzanne Bronheim, Ph.D.
Stanley Fiel, M.D.
Daniel Schidlow, M.D.
Phyllis MaGrab, Ph.D.
Kathleen Boczar, R.N.C., M.S.
Cindy Dillon, R.N., M.S
Prepared
under Grant #SPC-945-713 for the
Bureau of Maternal and Child Health
Anne Keller,
M.D.;
Pennsylvania Department of Health,
Principal Investigator;
in collaboration with
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children,
Temple University Hospital
and
Georgetown University Child Development Center
This manual is
intended as a guide for health professionals to establish
a new health care delivery system for transitioning
adolescents with chronic illness to adult health care.
The manual is based on the experience of a cystic
fibrosis team in a hospital for children and a department
of internal medicine, section on pulmonary disease (in
collaboration with other appropriate hospital
departments) in developing a model of care that fostered
the successful transfer of patients from one program to
the other. While the experience was with patients with
cystic fibrosis, the process for developing the model and
the model itself has broad application to a variety of
chronic diseases.
This on-line manual is
broken down into chapters and sections, listed below,
which are readable and downloadable as PDF files.
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