Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To evaluate the effect of a new care organisation on multiple outcomes of transition success and its cost-effectiveness in patients with any endocrine or metabolic disease diagnosed during childhood and transferred to adult care.Design: Non-randomized controlled trial in a French University Hospital.Methods: Patients transferred to adult care during the control period (04/2014-08/2016) and the intervention period (09/201...

Context: The transition period between pediatric and adult medicine is associated with poor patient outcomes and an important number of patients lost to follow up. Intervention exist but the few published randomized trials do not allow to study long-term patient outcomes nor intervention sustainability in time. Objective. Describe the cohort of patients in adult care who benefit from a new transition program based on case management approach, its activity and follow-up outcome...