Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Transitioning to Adult Care
Status: | Completed |
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Conditions: | Cardiology |
Therapuetic Areas: | Cardiology / Vascular Diseases |
Healthy: | No |
Age Range: | 18 - Any |
Updated: | 7/27/2017 |
Start Date: | March 1, 2014 |
End Date: | May 31, 2017 |
The purpose of this pilot trial, Transitioning to Adult Care (TRANSIT), is to develop and
test an intervention (i.e., a standardized, tailored transition program focused on enhancing
adherence) to improve outcomes for emerging adults who underwent heart transplantation as
children and transfer to adult care.
test an intervention (i.e., a standardized, tailored transition program focused on enhancing
adherence) to improve outcomes for emerging adults who underwent heart transplantation as
children and transfer to adult care.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Have received a heart transplant at a children's hospital and are ready to transition,
as determined by the pediatric heart transplant cardiologist, to the adult heart
transplant center with whom a collaborative relationship has been established;
- 18 years or older;
- Able to speak, read at a fifth grade level or above, and write English;
- Physically able to participate.
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of psychiatric hospitalization within the last 3 months, assessed on a
case-by-case basis with exclusion only if patients could not potentially benefit from
the intervention.
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Columbia University In 1897, the university moved from Forty-ninth Street and Madison Avenue, where it...
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225 E Chicago Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Chicago, Illinois 60611
(312) 227-4000
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital Northwestern Memorial is an academic medical center hospital where the patient comes...
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Loma Linda University Loma Linda University (LLU) is a Seventh-day Adventist educational health-sciences institution with...
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Principal Investigator: Lee Goldberg, MD
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