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A systematic review of the literature on ethical aspects of transitional care between child- and adult-orientated health services
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MILESTONE Consortium (Including: Paul, Moli, O'Hara, Lesley, Tah, Priya, Street, Catherine, Tuomainen, Helena, Signorini, Giulia, Santosh, Paramala, Maras, Athanasios, Purper Ouakil, Diane, Singh, Swaran P. and McNicholas, Fiona). (2018) A systematic review of the literature on ethical aspects of transitional care between child- and adult-orientated health services. BMC Medical Ethics, 19 . 73. doi:10.1186/s12910-018-0276-3 ISSN 1472-6939.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-018-0276-3
Abstract
Background
Healthcare policy and academic literature have promoted improving the transitional care of young people leaving child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). Despite the availability of guidance on good practice, there seems to be no readily accessible, coherent ethical analysis of transition. The ethical principles of non-maleficence, beneficence, justice and respect for autonomy can be used to justify the need for further enquiry into the ethical pros and cons of this drive to improve transitional care. The objective of this systematic review was therefore to systematically search for existing ethical literature on child- to adult-orientated health service transitions and to critically appraise and collate the literature, whether empirical or normative.
Methods
A wide range of bioethics, biomedical and legal databases, grey literature and bioethics journals were searched. Ancestral and forward searches of identified papers were undertaken. Key words related to transition, adolescence and young adulthood, ethics, law and health. The timeframe was January 2000 to at least March 2016. Titles, abstracts and, where necessary, full articles were screened and duplicates removed. All included articles were critically appraised and a narrative synthesis produced.
Results
Eighty two thousand four hundred eighty one titles were screened, from which 96 abstracts were checked. Forty seven full documents were scrutinised, leading to inclusion of two papers. Ancestral and forward searches yielded four further articles. In total, one commentary, three qualitative empirical studies and two clinical ethics papers were found. All focused on young people with complex care needs and disabilities. The three empirical papers had methodological flaws. The two ethical papers were written from a clinical ethics context rather than using a bioethical format. No literature identified specifically addressed the ethical challenges of balancing the delivery of transitional care to those who need it and the risk of pathologizing transient and self-limited distress and dysfunction, which may be normal during adolescence.
Conclusions
There is very little research on ethical aspects of transitional care. Most existing studies come from services for young people with complex care needs and disabilities. There is much scope for improvement in the amount and quality of empirical research and ethical analysis in this area.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | BMC Medical Ethics | ||||||
| Publisher: | BMC | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1472-6939 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 18 July 2018 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 19 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 73 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12910-018-0276-3 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 May 2018 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 August 2018 | ||||||
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