Appendix A
Interview Questions
- How many children with diabetes under the age of 18 do you see?
- How many young adults are referred back to you from the pediatric
center once they have reached 18-19?
- What is the process by which you currently receive emerging young
adults with Type 1 Diabetes into your practice?
- What is the process by which you currently transition your patients
into adult care?
- Do any of your now adult patients stay here for any part of their
diabetes care?
- What is the specialty training of the adult physicians to whom the
physicians send their patients to?
- Do you have any way of knowing if patients are seen once they are
transferred from your care?
- How do you prepare your patients for the transition to adult care?
- Do you feel your patients are usually prepared to make the transition
when they do?
- Are there any changes in the services provided when they transition
into adult care?
- What do you believe the goals of transition should be?
- How well is our current method of transition meeting these goals?
- What challenges do you see patients having navigating the adult
system?
- What are the challenges that you experience in the process of
transitioning patients to adult care?
- What forms of communications are used to let family doctors know about
the transfer?
- What should the role of the family doctor be for emerging adults with
diabetes?
- What needs to be in place to allow family physicians to play a greater
role in supporting emerging adults with type 1 Diabetes?
- Can you describe any initiatives at your center to improve the
transition of diabetes patients into adult care?
- What suggestions do you have for improving the transitioning of
patients into adult care?
- Is there anything you would like to add about the transition process
to adult care?