Promoting Intensive Transitions for Children and Youth with Medical Complexity from Paediatric to Adult Care: the PITCare study-protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Children with medical complexity (CMC) have chronic, intensive care needs managed by many healthcare practitioners. Medical advances have enabled CMC to survive well into adulthood. However, the availability of supports as CMC transition into the adult care system remain suboptimal, contributing to poor care coordination, and discontinuity. Promoting Intensive Transitions for Children and Youth with Medical Complexity from Paediatric to Adult Care (PITCare) aims to assess whether intensive patient and caregiver-oriented transition support beyond age 18 will improve continuity of care for CMC compared with usual care.

Methods and analysis

This is a pragmatic superiority randomised controlled trial in a parallel group, two-arm design with an embedded qualitative c

SUBMITTER: Santos S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11628984 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature