TY - BOOK AU - Bricker,J.Timothy AU - Omar,Hatim A. AU - Merrick,Joav TI - Adults with Childhood Illnesses: Considerations for Practice T2 - Health, medicine, and human development SN - 9783110255683 AV - RC108 .B75 2011 U1 - 616616.044 PY - 2011/// CY - Berlin PB - De Gruyter KW - Chronic diseases KW - Adulthood KW - Health services administration KW - Victims KW - Chronic Disease KW - therapy KW - Adult KW - Congenital Abnormalities KW - Human Development KW - Patient Care Management KW - Survivors KW - Maladies chroniques KW - Adultes KW - Services de santé KW - Administration KW - Victimes KW - MEDICAL KW - Long-Term Care KW - bisacsh KW - HEALTH & FITNESS KW - Diseases KW - General KW - Clinical Medicine KW - Evidence-Based Medicine KW - Internal Medicine KW - fast KW - Chronic Illnesses, Inner Medicine, Pediatrics, Rehabilitation N1 - Preface; Abbreviations; Authors index; INTRODUCTION; CHILDHOOD INTO ADULTHOOD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Index N2 - Just a few decades ago, children born with significant congenital anomalies or genetic and metabolic diseases perished at an early age and very few survived into their teens and even less into adulthood. Congenital heart disease, major errors in metabolism, cancer, cystic fibrosis and many other major diseases were fatal. Because of that many physicians in adult primary care did not have the opportunity to see patients with these problems and thus unable to learn how to care for them. This book provides a resource for all health care providers in order to help with caring for such adult patien UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=398954 ER -