Has the gap been bridged yet? Young people in paediatric and adult rheumatology
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What should adult rheumatology know about paediatric rheumatology?
Paediatric and adult rheumatology share many similarities in practice, patterns of disease and treatment and care of patients, but they have some important differences. Paediatric consultations emphasize family, education and developmental concerns as compared with more individualistic consultations in adult services. Young people (YP) with rheumatological disease encounter adult rheumatology d...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Rheumatology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1462-0324,1462-0332
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kes407