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Article History

Received: 17 April 2023

Accepted: 8 August 2024

First Online: 5 September 2024

Declarations

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: Not applicable. Since our study does not involve human subjects, an ethical approval was not required. The study is part of a wider project (“<i>Transition care between adolescent and adult services for young people with chronic health needs in Italy”</i>,<i> RF-2019-12371228</i> ) that was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the IRCCS “Carlo Besta” Ethics Committee (ethics committee of reference for the Mario Negri IRCCS Institute) (8 September 2021, protocol n. 87). The present study represents an analysis of the content of transition protocols (i.e., a set of predetermined guidelines regulating interventions to guarantee an effective transition to adult care) adopted by child psychiatric and psychiatric services and does not involve human participants. Transition protocols have been voluntarily shared by the heads of the services involved in the study and do not contain any data concerning patients. No data concerning single individuals were analyzed. Therefore, no anonymization was necessary, and no informed consent to participate was required.

: Not applicable. The article does not contain personal medical information about any identifiable living individual. No data concerning single individuals were analyzed. No explicit consent for publication was therefore required.

: The authors declare no competing interests.