Transitioning Youth to an Adult Health Care Clinician
For use by Pediatric, Family Medicine, and Med-Peds Clinicians
Transfer Completion
Transfer Completion is the sixth element in the Six Core Elements of Health Care Transition™ (HCT). This includes confirming transfer completion, offering pediatric consultation (as needed), and assessing consumer experience with transition supports. Closing the loop by confirming that the youth/young adult, who has transferred out of pediatric care, has established care with an adult clinician is an essential part of this core element. In addition, evaluating the success of the HCT process, with a mechanism to obtain and incorporate feedback from youth, young adults, and parents/caregivers, will improve the practice's approach to HCT.
Implementation
Read more information on the QI framework and methods in our Quality Improvement Primer.
Implementation: Transfer Completion
For each core element, we have created an implementation guide to assist you in establishing a structured transition approach in your practice/clinic/health system. It offers quality improvement (QI) guidance on what information and processes should be considered when undertaking each core element, with examples from different care settings or patient populations.
Before starting, we recommend you read How to Implement the Six Core Element of Health Care Transition, which provides a set of practical start-up steps and tips to guide your health care transition approach. In addition, if you have more questions about the QI aspects of this implementation guide, there are links within it to a Quality Improvement Primer that offers further explanations for common examples of QI tools.