International and Interdisciplinary Identification of Health Care Transition Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There is a lack of agreement on what constitutes successful outcomes for the process of health care transition (HCT) among adolescent and young adults with special health care needs.

Objective

To present HCT outcomes identified by a Delphi process with an interdisciplinary group of participants.

Design, setting, and participants

A Delphi method involving 3 stages was deployed to refine a list of HCT outcomes. This 18-month study (from January 5, 2013, of stage 1 to July 3, 2014, of stage 3) included an initial literature search, expert interviews, and then 2 waves of a web-based survey. On this survey, 93 participants from outpatient, community-based, and primary care clinics rated the importance of the top HCT outcomes identified by the Delphi process. Ana

SUBMITTER: Fair C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6345570 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature