Transitioning Care from Pediatric to Adult Pulmonology: Ensuring Best Practices and Optimal Outcomes

Section 1: General Principles of Transition Care.- Chapter 1. Development of Health Care Transition Policy and Concepts.- Chapter 2. Transition Research: Approaches to Measurement and Outcomes.- Chapter 3. Training Trainees: Creating a Better Workforce to Support Transition Care.- Section 2: Psychosocial Considerations in Transition.- Chapter 4. Development and Psychosocial Challenges for Self-Management and Maintaining Adherence to Chronic Therapies.- Chapter 5. Parents in Transition: Moving from Providing to Supporting Roles.- Chapter 6. Using a Socio-Ecological Framework to Guide Transition.- Section 3: Best Practice Recommendations and Transition Outcomes in Specific Pulmonary Conditions.- Chapter 7. Providing Care for a Changing CF Population.- Chapter 8. Transition Care for Adolescents and Young Adults with Neuromuscular Disease and Chronic Pulmonary Care Needs.- Chapter 9. Establishing a Medical Home for Asthma and Other Obstructive Lung Diseases.- Chapter 10. Pulmonary Hypertension: Transition Challenges in the Current Therapeutic Era.