Abstracts tagged "Adolescence and Transition"

Abstract Number: 127 • 2017 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Description of first 40 patients from a Rheumatologic Transition Clinic in Chile
Macarena Armstrong¹, Eduardo Talesnik², Paulina Andrea Diaz¹, Arturo Borzutzky² and Pamela Morales², ¹Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Internal Medicine Division, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, ²Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Background/Purpose: Transition is the planned, coordinated and continuous process in which an adolescent with chronic rheumatic disease is transferred from the pediatric service to an…
Abstract Number: 1402 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Meeting the Needs of Adolescents with Autoimmune Diseases, the Development of a Clinical Transition Pathway
Margot Walter¹, Johanna M.W. Hazes², Radboud JEM Dolhain³, Philomine A. van Pelt⁴, A. Dijk van⁵ and Sylvia S.M. Kamphuis⁶, ¹Rheumatology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Department of Rheumatology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ³Rheumatology, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Rheumatology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ⁵Sophia Children's Hospital, Erasmusmc, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ⁶Pediatric Rheumatology, Sophia Children's Hospital – Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Evidence based recommendations for transitional programs are available. Despite this, half of Young People (YP) do not make a successful transfer and implementation of…