Estimation of age of transition from paediatric to adult healthcare for young people with long term conditions using linked routinely collected healthcare data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Healthcare transitions, including from paediatric to adult services, can be disruptive and cause a lack of continuity in care. Existing research on the paediatric-adult healthcare transition often uses a simple age cut-off to assign transition status. This risks misclassification bias, reducing observed changes at transition (adults are included in the paediatric group and vice versa) possibly to differing extents between groups that transition at different ages.

Objective

To develop and assess methods for estimating the transition point from paediatric to adult healthcare from routine healthcare records.

Methods

A retrospective cohort of young people (12 to 23 years) with long term conditions was constructed from linked primary and secondary care data in

SUBMITTER: Jarvis S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8576739 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature