In this article we discuss the challenges of delivering a high quality Transition care. A good understanding of the adolescent needs with good communication between Transition care physicians and the patient is essential for good continuity of care. Despite availability of several guidelines, one model doesn't fit all and any transition service development should be determined by the local need...

Continued on page 2 The 1995 reorganization of the Veterans Health Administration into twenty-two Veterans Integrated Service Networks, or VISNs, created a significant opportunity to observe trends and innovations in healthcare delivery. One area where networks have substantially diverged has been in the development of service line structures. While some networks have moved forward rapidly in t...

Existing studies on the web service selection problem focus mainly on the functional QoS properties of the service rather than the consumer satisfaction and trust aspects. While a good QoS enhances the reputation of a service, different consumers invariably hold differing views of the service contents. Some service reputation approaches primarily consider the consumer’s prior experience of the ...

BACKGROUND Adolescence and young adulthood is a vulnerable time during which young people experience many development milestones, as well as an increased incidence of mental illness. During this time, youth also transition between Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS). This transition puts many youth at risk of disengagement from service use;...

Due to the scale and complexity of current Internet, how to protect the existing investment and reduce the negative influence to users and service providers during the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is a very important research topic for the future Internet. This paper summarizes and compares translation methods, tunneling methods, IPv6 transition scenarios, and IPv6 transition security problems;...