Transitioning to an Adult Approach to Health Care Without Changing Clinicians
For use by Family Medicine and Med-Peds Clinicians
Transition to Adult Approach to Care
Transition to an adult approach to care is the fifth element in the Six Core Elements of Health Care Transition™ (HCT). The clinician should continue to work with the youth/young adult to provide confidential services, assess and strengthen self-care skills, update a plan of care, and update and share a medical summary and emergency care plan with the youth/young adult.
Sample Tools
Implementation
Read more information on the QI framework and methods in our Quality Improvement Primer.
Implementation: Transition to Adult Approach to Care
For each core element, we have created an implementation guide to assist you in establishing a structured transition approach in your practice/clinic/health system. It offers quality improvement (QI) guidance on what information and processes should be considered when undertaking each core element, with examples from different care settings or patient populations.
Before starting, we recommend you read How to Implement the Six Core Element of Health Care Transition, which provides a set of practical start-up steps and tips to guide your health care transition approach. In addition, if you have more questions about the QI aspects of this implementation guide, there are links within it to a Quality Improvement Primer that offers further explanations for common examples of QI tools.