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Navigating the transition from paediatric to adult care

Nature Reviews Rheumatology volume 13, pages 138–139 (2017)Cite this article

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New guidelines from EULAR and the Paediatric Rheumatology European Society recommend a set of quality standards for the care of young adults with childhood-onset rheumatic diseases during their transfer from paediatric to adult rheumatology care providers. Can the application of these guidelines prevent patients from getting lost in the system?

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E.F.L. is supported in part by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Clinical & Translational Science Institute grant #UL1 TR001872, and the UCSF Hellman Fellows Fund. E.D.M. acknowledges support from the NIH, the Systemic JIA Foundation, and the UCSF-Stanford Arthritis Center of Excellence, funded in part by the Arthritis Foundation.

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  1. Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco Department of Pediatrics, 550 16th Street, San Francisco, 94143, California, USA

    Erica F. Lawson

  2. Department of Pediatrics and the Stanford Program in Immunology, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, 94305, California, USA

    Elizabeth D. Mellins

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Lawson, E., Mellins, E. Navigating the transition from paediatric to adult care. Nat Rev Rheumatol 13, 138–139 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrrheum.2017.16

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