Dan Wood, Alun Williams, Martin A. Koyle, Andrew D. Baird, editors.
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Cham, Switzerland :
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Springer,
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[2019]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: what do patients worry about? -- History of adolescent care in urology -- Adolescence: an overview -- Metrics and guidelines -- Information transfer -- Managing the patients -- The importance of the specialist nurse role as part of the lifelong care of congenital conditions -- Barriers to transition -- Developmentally appropriate adolescent health care : an essential prerequisite for positive transition experiences -- Quality and safety in transitional urologic care -- Building the multidisciplinary transition team -- Political concerns in transitioning medical care -- Taking a service forward: the adolescent and adult care of major congenital anomalies -- the move from adolescent to lifelong care.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book provides a guide to the complexities of medical care through adolescence and into adulthood. The principles of transition, the management of patients and parents, and developmentally appropriate adolescent health care are discussed and evaluated. The academic importance of understanding long-term outcomes of treatments and diseases that began in childhood is also covered. This book aims to help readers build a multidisciplinary transition team and details the barriers encountered in this process and the ways to overcome them.
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Springer Nature
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com.springer.onix.9783030058951
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Title
Transitioning Medical Care : Through Adolescence to Adulthood.