RESEARCH ARTICLE Measuring satisfaction wit persons with inflammator a

Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleBackground Quality of care in young persons with chronic disease has been receiving increasing attention over the past years [1,2]. Chronically ill adolescents and young adults are faced with the challenges of growing up and starting an independent life in the context of an often debilitating disease. At the same time, there is the additional prob-lem of transitioning from paediatric to adult medical care which will, if poorly staged, result in a care giver gap right at the age peak in risk taking behaviour [3-6]. Consequences may be grave. As an example, non-adherence has been shown to result in a severely com-promised prognosis in young transplant recipients and diabetics [7]. More disorders have by now moved into focus of care improvement programmes including gastrointestinal dis-ease [8-10]. The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) com