TABLE 6.
Youth-Adult Transition in Hospital Care Outcome Importance and Feasibility
| Outcomes | Importance | Feasibility | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rating, Mean | Very or Extremely, % | Rating, Mean | Very or Extremely, % | |
| Patient and family satisfaction with overall transition | 4.4 | 91 | 3.5 | 54 |
| Patient and family confidence managing their health and health care | 4.3 | 89 | 3.3 | 44 |
| Provider confidence in patient and family managing their health and health care | 4.2 | 83 | 3.3 | 41 |
| Inpatient medical errors after leaving children’s hospital | 4.2 | 86 | 3.0 | 32 |
| Ambulatory provider satisfaction with transition | 4.1 | 80 | 3.4 | 44 |
| Consistency in care | 4.1 | 82 | 3.0 | 36 |
| ED visits in early adulthood | 4.0 | 78 | 3.4 | 59 |
| Ambulatory transition execution | 4.0 | 80 | 3.0 | 33 |
| Inpatient provider satisfaction | 3.9 | 70 | 3.5 | 54 |
| Hospitalizations in early adulthood | 3.9 | 69 | 3.4 | 57 |
| Length of stay in early adulthood | 3.8 | 64 | 3.4 | 57 |
| Timing of ambulatory care transition | 3.5 | 48 | 3.1 | 33 |
| Length of ED encounter in early adulthood | 3.3 | 45 | 3.2 | 47 |
Ratings were as follows: 1 = not at all, 2 = a little, 3 = somewhat, 4 = very, and 5 = extremely. Consistency was defined as less back and forth across internal medicine and pediatrics services or redundant testing.