Three percent of patients admitted to children’s hospitals are at least 18 years old, and trends indicate that their numbers will only grow.
As these children with once-fatal diagnoses such as congenital heart disease survive well into adulthood, a treatment conundrum has developed: Should the patients be treated in pediatric or in adult hospitals?
Improvement in medical care for young adults with cancer also has been an emerging focus, as 15- to 39-year-olds represent 5 percent of all diagnoses, six times as many a
