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Closing the Gap: Youth Transitioning to Adult Care in BC

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Youth in care, adult care, partners in care, transitions in care, care coordination, complex care, chronic care
December 2012
Children and Youth | Policy Paper
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Doctors of BC Position: Successful transition from pediatric to adult care is the provision of uninterrupted, coordinated, developmentally appropriate, and psychologically sound health care. Doctors of BC supports providing complex pediatric patients with access to a family physician from birth, developing individualized transition plans for pediatric patients graduating to adult care, and creating a method for ongoing tracking and evaluation of successful care transitions for youth.

Improving Access to Acute Care Services

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access to care, acute care, beds, wait times, delays, burnout, capacity, complex care, hospital admissions, overcrowding, recruitment and retention
August 2008
Access to Care | Policy Paper
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Doctors of BC Position: Doctors of BC supports a number of recommendations on improving acute care services in BC. Efforts to improve access to acute care must focus on establishing wait time benchmarks for acute care, increasing supply of acute care beds, managing beds effectively, investing in community-based care, and improving government accountability. To better predict areas of need and to better allocate acute care resources, additional data collection and modelling is needed that is based on the realities of the practice setting and should be developed in collaboration with practicing physicians.