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PubMed Search
Not sure where to start? Try this search on continuity of care and hemophilia in PubMed. Use the filters or the Advanced Search to combine it with facets of the topic you want to focus on.
("Continuity of Patient Care"[MeSH Terms] OR ("continuity of care"[Title/Abstract] OR "care continuity"[Title/Abstract] OR "care continuum"[Title/Abstract] OR "continuum of care"[Title/Abstract] OR "continuity patient care"[Title/Abstract:~4] OR "continuum patient care"[Title/Abstract:~4] OR "transition care"[Title/Abstract:~2] OR "transitional care"[Title/Abstract] OR "aftercare"[Title/Abstract] OR "home transition"[Title/Abstract:~2] OR "patient transfer"[Title/Abstract:~4] OR "patient discharge"[Title/Abstract:~4] OR "loss to follow up"[Title/Abstract])) AND ("Hemophilia B"[MeSH Terms] OR "Hemophilia A"[MeSH Terms] OR (("hemophilia*"[Title/Abstract] AND "OR"[Title/Abstract]) OR "christmas disease"[Title/Abstract] OR "Plasma Thromboplastin Component Deficiency"[Title/Abstract]))
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Web Resources
- Condition-Specific ToolsFrom the American College of Physicians Pediatric to Adult Care Transition Initiative
- Steps for LivingFrom the National Hemophilia Foundation, Steps for Living provides informational content for each stage of life to transition from childhood to adulthood
Key Articles
Calabrese, S., Lee, S., Mollica, M. A., Wiener, L., Mendley, S., Adams, L., & Blachman-Demner, D. (2022). Navigating pediatric to adult healthcare transition: A National Institutes of Health workshop. The Journal of Pediatrics, 244, 234–240.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.01.052
Castillo, C., & Kitsos, E. (2017). Transitions from pediatric to adult care. Global Pediatric Health, 4. https://doi.org/10.1177/2333794X17744946
Marani, H., Fujioka, J., Tabatabavakili, S., & Bollegala, N. (2020). Systematic narrative review of pediatric-to-adult care transition models for youth with pediatric-onset chronic conditions. Children and Youth Services Review, 118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105415
Quon, D., Reding, M., Guelcher, C., Peltier, S., Witkop, M., Cutter, S., Buranahirun, C., Molter, D., Jane Frey, M., Forsyth, A., Tran, D. B., Curtis, R., Hiura, G., Levesque, J., de la Riva, D., Compton, M., Iyer, N. N., Holot, N., & Cooper, D. L. (2015). Unmet needs in the transition to adulthood: 18- to 30-year-old people with hemophilia: Unmet needs in young adults with hemophilia. American Journal of Hematology, 90, S17–S22. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajh.24219
Witkop, M., Guelcher, C., Forsyth, A., Quon, D., Hawk, S., Curtis, R., Cutter, S., Molter, D., & Cooper, D. L. (2015). Challenges in transition to adulthood for young adult patients with hemophilia: Quantifying the psychosocial issues and developing solutions. American Journal of Hematology, 90(S2), S1–S2. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajh.24217
Haggerty, J. L., Reid, R. J., Freeman, G. K., Starfield, B. H., Adair, C. E., & McKendry, R. (2003). Continuity of care: a multidisciplinary review. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 327(7425), 1219–1221. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1219
Kripalani, S., LeFevre, F., Phillips, C. O., Williams, M. V., Basaviah, P., & Baker, D. W. (2007). Deficits in communication and information transfer between hospital-based and primary care physicians: implications for patient safety and continuity of care. JAMA, 297(8), 831–841. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.297.8.831
van Walraven, C., Oake, N., Jennings, A., & Forster, A. J. (2010). The association between continuity of care and outcomes: a systematic and critical review. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, 16(5), 947–956. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01235.x