Bashore Lisa M
Life After Cancer Program, Cook Children's Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX 76104, USA.
Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 2011 Jun;23(2):311-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2011.02.002.
This article includes a definition of transition, the current state of transition, a review of transition research, an overview of chronic disease in survivors of childhood cancer (SCC), and the transition of SCC. In addition, models of transition are discussed, and the barriers to transition as well as principles for successful transition are identified.