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Transitioning Care from Pediatric to Adult Pulmonology

Ensuring Best Practices and Optimal Outcomes

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  • Addresses an unmet need in the care of adolescents and young adults with lung disease
  • Provides both general guidelines and specific disease-focused recommendations for transitions of care between pediatric and adult providers
  • Outlines a research and training agenda to improve knowledge and best practices in transitions of care from pediatric to adult providers

Part of the book series: Respiratory Medicine (RM)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. General Principles of Transition Care

  2. Psychosocial Considerations in Transition

  3. Best Practice Recommendations and Transition Outcomes in Specific Pulmonary Conditions

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About this book

This book addresses an unmet need in the care of adolescents and young adults with lung disease. The increasing survival of young adults with childhood-onset pulmonary conditions is a testament to major advances in treatments and health care delivery. With the increase in survival of children with chronic respiratory conditions, there is a need for formalized transition programs to integrate adolescents and young adults into the adult model of care. This book helps fill gaps in knowledge to best achieve that initiative.

This book takes a comprehensive approach to transition care in pulmonary medicine by satisfying the following objectives: 1) Understand the barriers and developmental challenges in the transition from pediatric to adult care for patients with chronic childhood-onset pulmonary disease; 2) Learn about successful evidence based transition models in pulmonary disease populations, focusing on key process and outcome measures for success; and 3) Develop knowledge to design, implement, and measure a transition program based on evidence and expert opinion.  In the first section, the book outlines general principles of transition care that are applicable to all patients regardless of underlying disease process and describe best practices for performing necessary research in transition care.  In the second section, the book explores psychosocial factors known to play a role in affecting transition outcomes, including parental support, psychological development, and socioeconomic factors.  In the final section, transition outcomes and best practices in specific respiratory diseases are outlined.  With a focus on populations with chronic pulmonary disease, this book highlights the challenges and barriers of transition, reviews model systems to understand the essential components of a transition program, and provides evidence-based information to navigate these barriers and achieve successful outcomes during transitionto adulthood.


This is an ideal guide for pediatric and adult pulmonary providers caring for patients who are transition age, as well as multidisciplinary care team members who work with these providers in care models on transition projects to improve the transition process. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care,Occupational, and Sleep Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA

    Cynthia D. Brown

  • Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Wyoming Medical Center, Casper, USA

    Erin Crowley

About the editors

Dr. Brown is the director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program and Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Indiana University.  She is an experienced clinician in the care of adults with CF, including transitional care, and has expertise in the conduct of clinical trials.  She sits on the Steering Committee for the CF Therapeutic Development Network, which provides oversight of clinical trials across CF Foundation-accredited clinical centers. She also mentors Dr. Crowley in the conduct of her research in the transition of CF patients from pediatric to adult care. 

 

Dr. Crowley was the associate director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program and Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Indiana University. Since the conception of this book, she has moved to Wyoming where she is now Clinical Lead in the Pulmonary Clinic. She plans to use her expertise in adult and pediatric medicine to provide pulmonary care to a range of patients in the state of Wyoming. She has a specific research focus on how social determinants of health affects outcomes in CF, specifically in individuals in transition from pediatric to adult health care.  

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Transitioning Care from Pediatric to Adult Pulmonology

  • Book Subtitle: Ensuring Best Practices and Optimal Outcomes

  • Editors: Cynthia D. Brown, Erin Crowley

  • Series Title: Respiratory Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68688-8

  • Publisher: Humana Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68687-1Published: 29 April 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68690-1Published: 29 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68688-8Published: 28 April 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2197-7372

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7380

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 169

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Pneumology/Respiratory System, Pediatrics

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