TY - JOUR AU - Cai, Ran A. AU - Chaplin, Hema AU - Livermore, Polly AU - Lee, Martin AU - Sen, Debajit AU - Wedderburn, Lucy R. AU - Wilkinson, Nick AU - Jeffery, Rachel AU - Kempa, Andrea AU - Norton, Imogen AU - Tattersall, Rachel AU - Ioannou, Yiannis AU - Eleftheriou, Despina PY - 2019 DA - 2019/05/21 TI - Development of a benchmarking toolkit for adolescent and young adult rheumatology services (BeTAR) JO - Pediatric Rheumatology SP - 23 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Young people (YP; 12–24 years old) with rheumatic diseases face many challenges associated with chronic illness in addition to the physiological and psychosocial changes of adolescence. Timely access to developmentally appropriate multidisciplinary care is key to successfully managing rheumatic diseases, but gaps in the care of this vulnerable age group still exist. This study aimed to develop a benchmarking toolkit to enable comparative evaluation of YP rheumatology services in order to promote best practice and reduce variations in service delivery. SN - 1546-0096 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12969-019-0323-8 DO - 10.1186/s12969-019-0323-8 ID - Cai2019 ER -