"Patient-clinician Toolkit Can Ease Transition From Pediatric to Adult IBD Care" - Marilynn Larkin
A toolkit created by a patient-clinician team can facilitate the transition from pediatric to adult care for adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to the tool's developers. Laurie Keefer, PhD, associate professor of medicine, psychiatry, and gastroenterology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai said that she has worked with similar toolkits and found them "very helpful and empowering, at least for a subset of young adult patients, (by) addressing their concerns in language that they understand." She added, “One of the difficulties our young adult patients face is knowing when/how to assert themselves about their care needs. Toolkits like this really normalize some of the common experiences and details about what they need to be thinking about.”
— Laurie Keefer, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine, Gastroenterology, Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director, GRITT-IBD, The Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center, The Mount Sinai Hospital