Pediatric Resident Knowledge, Confidence, and Experience in Transitioning Youth with Special Healthcare Needs

What Else? The Basics and Beyond for Effective Consultations with Youth with Special Healthcare Needs

Youth with special healthcare needs (YSHCN) require medical support for disease management and equally require that providers be responsive to their ever-changing and sometimes unique psychosocial and developmental needs. This paper reviews the fundamentals of adolescent consultation reminding the reader that YSHCN are, after all, still youth with the same basic needs as their healthy peers. Be...

Transitions to Adult Care for Rhode Island Youth with Special Healthcare Needs.

The transitioning of youth from pediatric to adult care systems is often fraught with discontinuity, miscommunication and gaps in care. This is most significant for youth with special health care needs. A panel discussion on transitioning youth to adult care systems that was part of a learning collaborative held by The RI Care Transformation Collaborative (CTC) is presented here, illustrated by...

The HIV experience: youth identified barriers for transitioning from pediatric to adult care.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of youth living with HIV who transitioned from pediatric to adult care. METHODS Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with 59 youth (mean age = 22 years) living with HIV about the transition experience, demographics, and health status. RESULTS Of youth who transitioned to adult care, immune function (CD4) trended d...

Pediatric resident education and needs assessment in clinical pharmacology.

OBJECTIVE To identify perceived and unperceived educational needs of residents to organize a seminar series in clinical pharmacology. METHOD All pediatric residents (48) and all attending general pediatric staff (20) were sent structured questionnaires with potential seminar topics. Data from previous pharmacy chart audits and complaints lodged with patient care representatives were analyzed ...

Policy on Transitioning from a Pediatric-centered to an Adult-centered Dental Home for Individuals with Special Health Care Needs.