Abstracts tagged "adolescent patients and quality improvement"

Abstract Number: 1429 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
A Quality Update: Improved Transfer Time Among Rheumatology Patients Transferring from Pediatric to Adult Care at an Academic Medical Center
Kimberly DeQuattro¹, Michael Evans¹, Aimee O. Hersh², Jinoos Yazdany¹, Emily von Scheven³ and Erica Lawson³, ¹Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Pediatrics/Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Pediatrics/Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Transfer from pediatric- to adult-oriented health care is challenging for patients with childhood-onset rheumatologic disease, and may be associated with treatment non-adherence, disease flares…