TY - JOUR
T1 - Transitional care of a childhood cancer survivor to adult services
T2 - Facilitating the process of individual access to different models
AU - Frey, Eva
AU - Van Der Pal, Helena
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - Purpose of review: In the past 20 years, several papers have been published concerning healthcare transition from pediatric after-care to long-term follow-up in adult health service for childhood cancer survivors. Initially, the papers were optimistic and included guidelines and models of care. However, after this optimistic beginning, more recent research has found that transitional care is not a successful process. Recent findings: Although the number of papers regarding transition in the past 2 years is few, they include revealing results about barriers and facilitators of the transition process. Summary: There is some evidence that joint pediatric/adult transition clinics are more successful in providing transitional care. The use of tools to assess individual psychological factors is important for the transition process and could lead to more individualized models of transition.
AB - Purpose of review: In the past 20 years, several papers have been published concerning healthcare transition from pediatric after-care to long-term follow-up in adult health service for childhood cancer survivors. Initially, the papers were optimistic and included guidelines and models of care. However, after this optimistic beginning, more recent research has found that transitional care is not a successful process. Recent findings: Although the number of papers regarding transition in the past 2 years is few, they include revealing results about barriers and facilitators of the transition process. Summary: There is some evidence that joint pediatric/adult transition clinics are more successful in providing transitional care. The use of tools to assess individual psychological factors is important for the transition process and could lead to more individualized models of transition.
KW - Childhood cancer survivors
KW - Facilitating the process
KW - Psychological factors
KW - Transition clinics
KW - Transition to adult heath service
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887958961&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1097/SPC.0b013e32836484bb
DO - 10.1097/SPC.0b013e32836484bb
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23912390
AN - SCOPUS:84887958961
SN - 1751-4258
VL - 7
SP - 309
EP - 313
JO - Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care
JF - Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care
IS - 3
ER -