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. 2022 Jun 18;32:100886. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2022.100886

Table 1.

List of potential interventions to be implemented in patients with IEMs transitioning care.

Interventions Strategies Goals
Patient Disease specific education/skills training
  • One to one teaching

  • Printed material

  • Adolescent friendly website

  • Group sessions

  • Improve understanding

  • Improve self-management skill

  • Increase autonomy

  • Identify high risk situations (i.e. dental procedures)

Disease identifier
  • Wallet cards

  • Medical alert card

  • Medical bracelet

  • Improve disease awareness

  • Early initiation of treatments during illness

  • Improve early contact with medical team

Medical Team Transition coordinator
  • Point of contact for patients

  • Create point of contacts for extended family members

  • Improve continuity of care

  • Provide transition planning

  • Prepare patients

  • Increasing availability of family members for communication support

Transitional clinic
  • Clinic attendance by pediatric and adult physicians

  • Expand visits to extended family members

  • Introduction to transition

  • Improve continuity of care

  • Improve information exchange/sharing

  • Increasing availability of family members for support

Telemedicine
  • Telephone visits

  • Video visits (Zoom, Facetime, WebEx, Microsoft Teams)

  • Improve clinic attendance/follow up through utilization of telemedicine

  • Improve follow up in patients with limited transportation

  • Improve follow up for patients that live far from the clinic

Health System Dedicated emergency treatment center
  • Stable hospital for admission

  • Notify EMS about the special patient

  • Consistent, acute treatments

  • Appropriate transport of patients to selected facilities

Notify the treatment team for admission
  • Insurance company to notify the outpatient team

  • Initiate appropriate care and/or transfer if needed

Enhanced follow ups
  • Automatic telephone reminders and/or calls if the appointment is missed

  • Improve the rates of follow up and encourage their follow up