H. Mellerio

TL;DR: Transplanted children, particularly girls and patients with low parental educational levels, require optimized educational, psychologic, and social support to reach the educational level of their peers during adulthood to help them integrate into the working population and build a family.

TL;DR: Systematic review of comparative studies assessing transition to adult care interventions for young people with chronic conditions identified areas for improvement in terms of randomisation, recruitment and external validity, blinding, measurement validity, standardised assessment and reporting.

TL;DR: This goal was to identify relevant and pragmatic guidelines for transition practice for each step of this process (before, during and after transfer), applicable to a wide range of chronic illnesses and health services, via a participatory approach involving all the key stakeholders.

TL;DR: The transition entre the pediatrie and the medecine for adultes is a periode charniere for les adolescents and jeunes adultes porteurs d'une maladie chronique as discussed by the authors, which comporte un fort risque de rupture du parcours de soins and degradation de l'etat de sante a court and long term.

TL;DR: The transition is a key step for adolescents with chronic illnesses, as they are at risk of a disruption in care, complications and even mortality.