Spina bifida transition to adult healthcare guidelines
Abstract
With an estimated 85% of individuals with spina bifida (SB) surviving into adulthood, SB-specific transition to adult healthcare guidelines are warranted to address the diverse and complex medical, adaptive, and social needs particular to this condition. This commentary discusses the SB Transition Healthcare Guidelines from the 2018 Spina Bifida Association’s Fourth Edition of the Guidelines for the Care of People with Spina Bifida, reviews current transition care models in which such guidelines can be implemented, and explores further research topics in SB transition care.
Table 1
Spina bifida transition guideline summary by age group
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| Ages 6–11 years |
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| Ages 12–17 |
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| Age 18 and above |
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1.Introduction
Spina Bifida (SB) is a complex condition that impacts multiple organ systems and is associated with varying degrees of lifelong physical, cognitive, and adaptive impairment [1, 2, 3]. The prevalence of open SB (myelomeningocele) is 3 in 10,000 births. With pediatric SB care advancements since the 1970s, an estimated 85% of individuals with SB survive well into adulthood necessitating attention to their particular transition to adult healthcare needs [4, 5, 6]. This article aims to (1) discuss the development of the Spina Bifida Association’s Transition Guidelines, (2) evaluate SB transition care models, and (3) explore future SB transition research topics.
2.Goals of transition
Transition to adult healthcare is the “purposeful, planned movement of adolescents and young adults with chronic physical and medical conditions from child- to adult-oriented healthcare” [7]. This process incorporates preparation, planning, and follow-up from early adolescence through young adulthood [8]. The goal of transition is to “maximize lifelong functioning and potential through the provision of high-quality, developmentally appropriate healthcare services that continue uninterrupted as the individual moves from adolescence to adulthood” [7].
3.SB transition guidelines
The SB Transition Healthcare Guidelines is a new section in the Fourth Edition of the Spina Bifida Association’s Guidelines for the Care of People with Spina Bifida (Table 1) [9]. These guidelines are the result of three years of planning, literature review, and content development by experts in SB care including pediatric and adult physicians from multiple subspecialties, psychologists, and nurses. Given that transition to adult care is a growing field, there is limited evidence to support particular transition practices. Thus, the guidelines are primarily based on expert consensus with literature references as applicable (guidelines are summarized in Table 1). The following objectives governed the guideline development:
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1. Maximize health and participation in emerging adult milestones throughout the transition process.
2. Provide patient-centered, comprehensive transition care that includes: transition planning and care coordination beginning by age 14; self-management coaching; decision-making support; education and employment resources; and inde- pendent-living support.
3. Promote access to uninterrupted, developmentally appropriate SB condition management and preventative care throughout transition – specifically, ages 14–21.
4.Transition planning throughout the lifespan, beginning in the prenatal and infancy periods
Understanding the individual’s probable adult functional trajectory guides lifelong transition planning. In general, individuals with higher lesions (i.e. above L2) and hydrocephalus require support for bowel and bladder management, mobility, self-care, transfers, and activities of daily living throughout life [10, 11]. By age 30, approximately one-third of individuals with SB are fully independent, one-third need occasional assistance, and one-third routinely need assistance for daily care needs [12]. Compared with their typically-developing peers, individuals with SB may have a two- to five-year delay in developing autonomy skills [13]. Lifelong optimization of condition management, family function, socialization, school performance, mental health, and self-management support maximal adult health and quality of life attainment [11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17].
Successfully navigating funding resources promotes access to care. Private and public insurance eligibility and coverage vary amongst plans and age groups and are subject to change. From the 2009–2012 National SB Patient Registry (NSBPR) Data, 53% of patients age 22 or younger lacked private insurance which was associated with decreased bowel/bladder continence and community ambulation [18]. Thus, individuals with Medicaid may need more supports to ensure access to needed services. State-based home and community based-service waivers offer funding for adaptive living needs. However, waiver services, eligibility, and wait-list time are unique to each state and subject to change. Therefore, SB providers should routinely review care needs, current coverage, and future coverage plans with all age groups and particularly during the transition years.
Finally, SB providers should aid individuals in accessing comprehensive care throughout the lifespan. The predominant SB pediatric model is for patients to be seen annually in a SB multidisciplinary clinic [19]. However, this clinic model is not typically found in adult healthcare systems. Partnerships between adult and pediatric providers, administration, payers, patients and families, and advocacy groups are needed to create sustainable, comprehensive SB care models throughout the lifespan.
5.Transition planning ages 6–18
Regardless of lesion level, individuals with SB may have diminished or delayed self-management, independent living, and healthcare navigation skills [20]. For AYASB, self-management skills proficiency predicts decreased urinary tract infections, hospitalizations, and anxiety/depression and increased family satisfaction [21, 22]. Physical or intellectual disability, lower socioeconomic status, lower family health literacy, and minority racial/ethnic background predict decreased health status, regimen adherence, and functional independence [18, 23, 24]. Children with SB who have better condition knowledge; self-efficacy; and participation in decision-making, problem-solving,self-care, and household responsibilities demonstrate higher levels of self-management and social competence [25, 26, 27, 28]. Parental expectation and encouragement fosters independent skill development. Conversely, parental over-protection hinders developmental potential [3, 17, 29]. SB providers should routinely evaluate the individual’s participation in self-manage-ment tasks and household chores and offer appropriate parental counseling, nurse education, and regimen adjustment to promote independence. Neurocognitive testing or physical/occupational therapy may aid in evaluating and improving self-care.
6.Transition planning ages 12–18
In addition to the on-going chronic care described above, pediatric clinics should review a clinic transition policy and care plan with patients and families beginning at age 12–14 [30]. The transition policy should explain the clinic’s approach to preparing and transferring the adolescent from a pediatric to adult care [30]. Transition care plans should include transfer timing, who will assume care throughout transition, a medical summary, a transition readiness/self-management assessment and intervention, higher education and employment options, transportation/adaptive driving options, and decision-making support options. The recommended components for a SB-specific transition plan are reviewed below. The Got Transition Website (www.gottransition.org) provides examples of general transition policies, transition plans, and self-management assessment tools [31]. The Spina Bifida Association website provides a SB-specific medical summary and information sheets (www.spinabifidaas sociation.org) [32].
6.1Medical summary
Recommended medical summary components are medical and surgical history, current care plans, emergency care plans, medications, allergies, vaccines, current providers, cognitive/physical function, and self-management assessment [33]. Condition care plans document the date of diagnosis, severity of condition and/or associated comorbidities, previous pertinent evaluations and interventions, provider (s) managing the condition, and the current management. Emergency plans list the signs and symptoms of condition exacerbation as well as evaluation and treatment considerations. Shunt malfunction, urinary tract infections, and skin ulcers pose the greatest risk for adult hospitalization and thus should be included in emergency care plans [34]. Updating the medical summary with the patient/family during transition visits can guide patient education and organize care management.
6.2Assessment and intervention for transition readiness and self-management
The Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire (TRAQ), measuring participation in general tran-sition-age tasks, and the Adolescent/Young Adult Self-Management and Independence Scale II (AMIS II), measuring independence both SB specific and general AYA self-management tasks, have been previously used with AYASB [35, 36, 37]. Goal-setting interventions show promise in improving care responsibility, independence, and general executive functioning for AYASB [38, 39, 40]. However, condition-related attention, memory, and executive function (planning, organizing, and completing tasks) impairments may necessitate more practice and coaching to accomplish goals [41, 42]. Goal success depends on patient and family/caregiver engagement [25, 43].
6.3Education and employment
AYASB have lower employment rates than their typically developing peers [44]. Higher executive function, socioeconomic status, parental support, and bowel continence predict adult employment. Thus, future school/work planning should integrate self-manage-ment independence and continence management [23]. Early preparation for higher education/work accommodations, financial, housing, transportation, and vocational rehabilitation yields successful school-work transition [15]. Transition providers should offer transportation, volunteering, and day program resources to individuals unable to work/attend higher education to maximize their community participation as well.
6.4Decision-making
Decision-making ability at age 18 varies amongst AYASB. Discerning the individual’s decision-making capacity around age 17 with the patient/family guides counseling on independent decision-making, supportive decision-making, and guardianship options. If able, adolescents should learn to provide their health information and meet with their doctor independently throughout transition to foster decision-making independence [30].
7.Transition hand-off and integration into adult care ages 18+
Transfer to adult care typically occurs between ages 18–21 [45]. This process encompasses the exchange of medical records and care plan responsibilities as well as monitoring to ensure successful establishment with adult care [30]. Gaps in care access during transfer can lead to condition exacerbation and increased acute care [46]. Thus, transfer timing should be flexible to ensure that medical conditions are stable, care plans are current, and patients have continuous access to funding and providers prior to discharge from pediatric care.
8.Models of care
A 1994 study documenting suboptimal outcomes for AYASB after the disbanding of a multidisciplinary clinic sparked SB transition model research [47]. In 2008, the Maternal Child Health Bureau Division of Children with Special Health Care Needs summarized both SB-specific and non-specific approaches to SB transition [48]. A non-SB specific approach may be particularly suitable to combined internal medicine-pediatrics programs that can offer complex transition care to bridge pediatric and adult services [49]. For example, the Riley Children’s Hospital Center for Youth and Adults with Conditions of Childhood provides consultative visits for patients with chronic conditions during the transition years and the Baylor College of Medicine Transition Medicine Clinic provides a medical home for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities transferring into adult care [50, 51].
Over the past decade, SB condition-specific Transition Models have emerged coincidentally with NSBPR development. In such models, nurses and social workers provide SB-specific navigation support and self-management coaching to promote independence and successful transfer [52, 53, 54]. Currently, two NSBPR clinics offer lifelong care, however many pediatric clinics coordinate transfer to adult primary care in an affiliated institution. Several clinics offer joint visits with adult healthcare providers, e.g. the Lurie Children’s Hospital SB Clinic affiliated with the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and the Texas Children’s SB Transition Clinic affiliated with the Baylor College of Medicine Transition Medicine Clinic [55, 56]. Urology transition research has identified that AYASB often have active urologic concerns during transition and thus, urology-specific transition clinics have been proposed as well [57, 58, 59, 60]. Interagency models linking SB pediatric clinics with community-based programs or camps for transition and self-management independence support have also been described [38, 61].
A 2017 Spina Bifida Association survey assessing transition care in NSBPR clinics documented that transition concepts are generally discussed, but most clinics do not routinely evaluate their transition process and only 30% communicate with adult providers [62]. SB transition guideline implementation provides a cohesive strategy to improve the standardization of transition care and study transition outcomes.
9.Areas of future research and conclusions
Potential areas of future research for SB transition include (1) identifying barriers and facilitators of self-management independence, health status, and engagement in secondary education/vocation for adults with SB that may inform transition counseling and intervention; (2) determining successful interventions to improve adult SB care access; and (3) determining best transition care models to promote health outcomes, quality of life, and transition readiness, and successful transfer. Consensus is also needed on AYASB health status, self-management, and care access outcome measures.
SB transition planning is a particularly challenging given the variability and complexity of the condition and differences between pediatric and adult healthcare systems for SB care. This article offers guidance on SB transition program content that SB providers, individuals and families, administration, payers, and advocates can collaboratively adapt to their local resources and population needs. Specific care management guidelines for AYASB can be found by topic and age group on the Guidelines for the Care of People with Spina Bifida website (https://www.spinabifidaassociation.org/ guidelines/).
Conflict of interest
The authors have no real or apparent conflicts of interest to disclose.
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