Status of the transition/transfer process for adolescents with chronic diseases at a national pediatric referral hospital in Argentina.

Introduction: The shift of adolescents from a pediatric to an adult health care facility is a complex process. The objective of this study was to assess the transition/transfer process for adolescents with chronic diseases at Hospital Garrahan.

Methods: Observational, cross-sectional, qualitative-quantitative study.

Validation of the Argentine Spanish version of Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire for adolescents with chronic conditions.

Introduction: The transition of adolescents with chronic conditions to adult follow-up care is an increasingly complex process. Patients need to acquire knowledge and skills that ensure continuity of their care. The goal of this study was to validate the Argentinian Spanish version of the Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire (TRAQ) 5.

[Inadvertent adolescent pregnancy: a sentinel analysis].

A sentinel event is an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof.The sentinel event identified was undiagnosed adolescent pregnancy before the indication of potentially harmful treatments or diagnostic methods. The team performed a root -cause analysis where the following causes were identified: a) Paediatrician bias: not thinking about adolescent sexual behaviour, incomplete questionnaires, insufficient training in adolescent interviews.

[The handicapped adolescents and their sexuality].

Adolescents with different types of motor handicapping have desires, needs, and feelings, and have the right to express them in the best possible and acceptable way. Sexual education provided to young people with these handicaps is generally more limited than that offered to their normal peers. These adolescents are inadvertently excluded, and some may find difficult to establish a steady couple relationship.

[Highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV sero-positive children. Disease progression by baseline clinical, immunological and virological status].

Introduction: Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has been administered to children infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) since 1996. This kind of therapy is effective in achieving viral suppression and stopping disease progression but prolonged administration increases the risk of toxic effects, favours the onset of viral resistance and leads to decreased adherence. The aim of the present study was to determine prognostic factors among clinical, immunological and virological parameters at the beginning of HAART.