Table 3.
Health care consumption during follow-up and health care transition by age range (from pre-transition [age 13 years] to 19 years)
| Missing data | 13–14 years | 14–15 years | 15–16 years | 16–17 years | 17–18 years | 18–19 years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients with > 1 scheduled consultations | 5 | 13/70 (18.6%) | 27/76 (35.5%) | 16/70 (22.9%) | 19/66 (22.8%) | 24/62 (38.7%) | 23/56 (41.1%) |
| Number of scheduled consultations, median [range] | 5 | 0 [0–6] | 0 [0–5] | 1 [0–6] | 1 [0–5] | 1 [0–10] | 1 [0–10] |
| Patients with ≥ 1 emergency department visit(s) | 5 | 0/70 (0.0%) | 4/76 (5.3%) | 1/71 (1.4%) | 1/67 (1.5%) | 3/63 (4.8%) | 2/57 (3.5%) |
| Number of emergency department visits, median [range] | 5 | 0 [0–0] | 0 [0–2] | 0 [0–3] | 0 [0–1] | 0 [0–1] | 0 [0–2] |
| Patients with ≥ 1 unscheduled hospitalization(s) | 5 | 0/72 (0.0%) | 2/78 (2.6%) | 1/73 (1.4%) | 0/69 (0.0%) | 2/65 (3.1%) | 1/59 (1.7%) |
| Number of unscheduled hospitalizations, median [range] | 5 | 0 [0–0] | 0 [0–2] | 0 [0–2] | 0 [0–1] | 0 [0–1] | 0 [0–2] |
Results are number/number (%) of patients at risk for the period and median [range]
We defined health care transition-age as ranging from 13 to 19 years old, because at 13 years old, the transition to adult care has not yet begun and at 19 years, this process is considered completed