Strategies and Best Practices for Effective Transition of Patients with Complex Medical Needs
Optimizing Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care — features faculty from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Boston Children’s Hospital BRIDGES Adult Transition Program. It offers comprehensive guidance and practical strategies to help you identify appropriate adult care providers, improve existing transition processes, and tailor approaches based on patient age, condition, and abilities. Learn to develop policies and build transition teams that enhance coordination across care settings, leverage telehealth and social media innovations, and ensure up-to-date, portable medical summaries. Designed for pediatric, family medicine, internal medicine, and subspecialty providers, this course equips you with tools to optimize patient readiness, promote self-management, address sexual health and fertility, and support special patient populations with complex or rare conditions. Gain actionable insights to confidently navigate the evolving landscape of patient transition and reimbursement in 2024.
* Date of Original Release: May 1-3, 2024
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
Manage chronic childhood conditions in adolescents and adults, including complex and developmental disorders.
Implement effective strategies for transferring and accepting patients, focusing on care coordination and team-based approaches.
Assess healthcare systems’ impact on transitions, including quality improvement and reimbursement.
Engage patients and families to support self-management, communication, and equitable care.
HARVARD OPTIMIZING TRANSITION FROM PEDIATRIC TO ADULT CARE 2024
4. Ensuring Adherence: Strategies and Best Practices Gleaned from Cystic Fibrosis – Gregory S. Sawicki, MD, MPH
5. Faculty Q&A – Dr. Niraj Sharma; Drs. Garvey, Milligan, and Sawicki
6. The Use of Quality Improvement (QI) in Transition Care: Overview – Kitty O’Hare, MD
7. Preparing Women with Chronic Conditions for Pregnancy: Strategies and Best Practices Gleaned from Congenital Heart Disease Care – Anne Marie Valente, MD
8. Parent Guidance for Transitional Age Youth – Yoshio Kaneko, MD
9. Substance Use Disorder in Transition-Age Youth – Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS
10. Faculty Q&A – Dr. Niraj Sharma; Drs. Hadland, Kaneko, and Valente
QI Workshops 1A–1C
1A Transition Care Policy Writing – Niraj Sharma, MD, MPH and Ahmet Uluer, DO, MPH
1B Transition QI: Creating a Current State Process Map – Madeline Chiujdea, BA, CPHQ, CLSSGB and Natalie Mann, BSE
1C Gap Analysis: Current State vs. Ideal State – Staci R. Eisenberg, MD, Colleen A. Monaghan, MD and Kitty OHare, MD
QI Workshops 2A–2C
2A Inpatient QI Project Cycle Development – Ahmet Uluer, DO, MPH and Susan Shanske, LICSW
2B Outpatient QI Project Cycle Development (Beginners) – Colleen A. Monaghan, MD and Staci R. Eisenberg, MD