Transitioning Youth to an Adult Health Care Clinician
For use by Pediatric, Family Medicine, and Med-Peds Clinicians
Tracking and Monitoring
Establishing a mechanism to track receipt of the Six Core Elements of Health Care Transition™ (HCT) is the second element in the Six Core Elements. An individual flow sheet within the electronic medical record (EMR) can be used to track when individual transition-aged youth receive each core element. Information from the individual flow sheet can be used to populate a registry and help monitor the extent to which transition-aged youth in the practice/system are receiving recommended HCT services.
Implementation
Read more information on the QI framework and methods in our Quality Improvement Primer.
Implementation: Tracking and Monitoring
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.