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The challenges of transferring chronic illness patients to adult care: reflections from pediatric and adult rheumatology at a US academic center

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the transfer of care process from pediatric to adult rheumatology for patients with chronic rheumatic disease. The purpose of this study is to examine changes in disease status, treatment and health care utilization among adolescents transferring to adult care at th...

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Autores principales: Hersh, Aimee O, Pang, Shirley, Curran, Megan L, Milojevic, Diana S, von Scheven, Emily
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19505332
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-7-13