Transitional Care for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Japanese Experience
Author(s) -
Hideki Kumagai,
Yasuo Suzuki,
Toshiaki Shimizu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
digestion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.882
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1421-9867
pISSN - 0012-2823
DOI - 10.1159/000510652
Subject(s) - transitional care , medicine , multidisciplinary approach , referral , context (archaeology) , inflammatory bowel disease , adult care , health care , family medicine , autonomy , quality of life (healthcare) , disease , pediatrics , nursing , intensive care medicine , young adult , gerontology , paleontology , social science , sociology , political science , law , economics , biology , economic growth
Transition-related healthcare intervention has recently been receiving worldwide attention. Given the increasing incidence of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and its lifelong impact, transitional care has become an important issue. In Japan, guidelines to support the autonomy of IBD patients during transition were recently published.
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