1 40 1 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Citation List Month Backlog URL Address <a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03467.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03467.x</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Transition process of patients with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) from paediatric to the adult health care service: a hospital-based approach Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Clinical Endocrinology Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Subject The topic of the resource Female; Humans; Young Adult; Pediatrics; Questionnaires; Patient Satisfaction; adolescent; Adolescent Transitions; retrospective studies; Diabetes Mellitus; Glycosylated/metabolism; Hemoglobin A; Patient Transfer/methods; Type 1/metabolism/therapy Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cadario F; Prodam F; Bellone S; Trada M; Binotti M; Trada M; Allochis G; Baldelli R; Esposito S; Bona G; Aimaretti G Description An account of the resource INTRODUCTION: The outcomes of different types of transitions of young people with chronic diseases have been poorly investigated. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and compare a structured transition from the paediatric diabetes services (PDS) into the adult diabetic services (ADS) with an unstructured one. DESIGN: We retrospectively investigated 62 adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes discharged from the PDS from 1 January 1994 to 31 December 2004. Thirty-two patients (group A) were transferred to the ADS of the same hospital with an unstructured method (letter) and 30 patients after a structured transfer planned with adult physicians (group B). We analysed the date of the first admission in ADS, the glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c), the clinic attendance rate in PDS and in the first year in ADS, and a phone questionnaire on the transition experience. RESULTS: The duration of the transfer was longer in A than in B with a lack of medical assistance during the unstructured transition (P < 0.001). At the first visit in ADS, before any medical intervention, HbA1c was improved in B compared to the last in PDS (P < 0.01), and had a trend in worsening in A. After 1 year in the ADS there was a better clinical attendance, and a lower HbA1c in B than in A (P < 0.05). All the subjects of group B reported a favourable opinion for the structured transition (P < 0.0001). CONCLUSION: The transition process plays an important role in diabetic care and a structured plan is mandatory to avoid to lose the patients and to get worse their health. 2009 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03467.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03467.x</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s). Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article 2009 Adolescent Adolescent Transitions Aimaretti G Allochis G Backlog Baldelli R Bellone S Binotti M Bona G Cadario F Clinical Endocrinology Diabetes Mellitus Esposito S Female Glycosylated/metabolism Hemoglobin A Humans Journal Article Patient Satisfaction Patient Transfer/methods Pediatrics Prodam F Questionnaires Retrospective Studies Trada M Type 1/metabolism/therapy Young Adult