Development of a benchmarking toolkit for adolescent and young adult rheumatology services (BeTAR)

• Main Authors: Ran A. Cai (Author), Hema Chaplin (Author), Polly Livermore (Author), Martin Lee (Author), Debajit Sen (Author), Lucy R. Wedderburn (Author), Nick Wilkinson (Author), Rachel Jeffery (Author), Andrea Kempa (Author), Imogen Norton (Author), Rachel Tattersall (Author), Yiannis Ioannou (Author), Despina Eleftheriou (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Young people (YP; 12-24 years old) with rheumatic diseases face many challenges associated with chronic illness in addition to the physiological and psychosocial changes of adolescence. Timely access to developmentally appropriate multidisciplinary care is key to successfully man...