Published online October 26, 2009
PEDIATRICS Vol. 124 No. 5 November 2009, pp. 1469-1470 (doi:10.1542/peds.2009-1662)
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Promoting Lifelong Health for Adolescents and Young Adults With Special Health Care Needs

Gail B. Slap, MD, MSc, Series Editor

Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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This issue of Pediatrics launches a series entitled "Promoting Lifelong Health for Adolescents and Young Adults With Special Health Care Needs." Each article in the series provides a state-of-the-art review of the transition from pediatric to adult-centered care for adolescents and young adults with a specific health condition beginning in childhood. The first 2 articles in the series address conditions at opposite ends of the transition spectrum. In this issue, Simon et al1 describe hydrocephalus as a prototypical condition in need of transition services. Despite the complex care typically required as children with hydrocephalus mature to adulthood, programs to facilitate their transition from pediatric to adult-care settings do not exist. In contrast, transition for adolescents with cystic fibrosis increasingly is planned, gradual, and collaborative. As described in an upcoming review, patients with cystic fibrosis, along with their families and health care teams, now have model programs designed to provide for them seamless, family-centered, outcome-driven . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Address correspondence to Gail B. Slap, MD, MSc, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Main Building, 11NW71, Philadelphia, PA 19104. E-mail: slapg@email.chop.edu


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