BookDan Wood, Alun Williams, Martin A. Koyle, Andrew D. Baird, editors.
Summary: 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.
Contents:
Introduction: what do patients worry about?
History of adolescent care in urology
Adolescence: an overview
Metrics and guidelines
Information transfer
Managing the patients
The importance of the specialist nurse role as part of the lifelong care of congenital conditions
Barriers to transition
Developmentally appropriate adolescent health care : an essential prerequisite for positive transition experiences
Quality and safety in transitional urologic care
Building the multidisciplinary transition team
Political concerns in transitioning medical care
Taking a service forward: the adolescent and adult care of major congenital anomalies - the move from adolescent to lifelong care.