Checklist for follow-up of adolescents with chronic illness. A monitoring tool to help prepare the transition from pediatric to adult care.

Adolescence can be a particularly challenging period for individuals with a chronic illness. To help the specialized healthcare teams, an expert panel drafted a checklist of topics to be addressed throughout adolescence that are often not covered in subspecialty clinic visits such as peers, coping, adherence, understanding of illness, sexuality, etc., since these topics apply to youth with special healthcare needs.