Amaria Khush, Stinson Jennifer, Cullen-Dean Geraldine, Sappleton Karen, Kaufman Miriam
Good 2 Go Transition Program, Division of Adolescent Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
Healthc Q. 2011;14 Spec No 3:72-6.
Moving from pediatric to adult healthcare is a time of stress and opportunity for adolescents with special healthcare needs (ASHCN) and their families. With over 90% of children with special healthcare needs surviving into young adulthood, there is an increasing imperative to actively engage youth in preparing for the adult system (Betz and Smith 2011; Pai and Schwartz 2011). The goal of transition care is to provide young people with a coordinated, uninterrupted and developmentally appropriate transfer to adult healthcare (Kaufman and Pinzon 2007). This is often complicated by the complex medical, social and psychological tasks and requirements that adolescents experience as they navigate their healthcare and their lives as young, developing people.
对于有特殊医疗需求的青少年（ASHCN）及其家庭而言，从儿科医疗过渡到成人医疗是一个充满压力与机遇的时期。超过90%有特殊医疗需求的儿童存活至青年期，因此，积极促使年轻人为进入成人医疗体系做好准备变得愈发迫切（贝茨和史密斯，2011年；派伊和施瓦茨，2011年）。过渡性医疗的目标是为年轻人提供协调、不间断且符合其发展阶段的成人医疗转接服务（考夫曼和平松，2007年）。青少年在应对自身医疗需求以及作为成长中的年轻人应对生活时，会面临复杂的医疗、社会和心理任务及要求，这常常使过渡变得复杂。
