Transitioning adolescents to adult care and adulthood: is it time yet?

Contemporary Pediatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 46-52

  Sanders, Renata Arrington ^a   Kuo, Dennis Z ^b   Levey, Eric ^c   Cheng, Tina L ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN S CENTER   (United States)

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