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Disease category Eligibility for referral to the Hong Kong Children's Hospital
Bone Confirmed or suspected
  • osteogenesis imperfecta
  • skeletal dysplasia (e.g. achondroplasia, fibrous dysplasia etc.)
  • metabolic bone diseases
  • rickets
  • calcium and phosphate metabolic disorders with potential genetic etiology (e.g. calcium sensor defects, X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets) or requiring surgical intervention (e.g. parathyroid adenoma / hyperplasia)
Diabetes Mellitus
  • Confirmed or suspected Type 1 diabetes
    • Patients on insulin pump
    • Neonatal diabetes and other monogenic diabetes (e.g. DIDMOAD)
    • Patients with co-existing autoimmune diseases (excluding well-controlled thyroid diseases)
    • Patients with diabetic complications (excluding intermittent microalbuminuria)
    • Patients with Type 1 diabetes and eating disorders with unstable diabetic control
    • Suboptimally controlled diabetes
  • Confirmed or suspected Type 2 diabetes
    • Patients with Type 2 DM and ≥ 2 obesity-related problems including hypertension, dyslipidaemia, OSAS, PCOS or fatty liver
    • Patients with diabetic complications
    • Suboptimally controlled diabetes
    • Patients requiring long-term insulin treatment or other injectable diabetes medication
  • Patients with the following conditions could also be referred to HKCH for the Territory-wide Diabetes Enhancement Programme with CGM support (a joint care programme between HKCH and other HA paediatric departments):
    • 8 years old or below at the time of referral
    • Frequent/significant hypoglycaemia (requiring AED visit/admission/glucagon use in the past 1 year)
    • Impaired hypoglycaemic awareness
    • Inability to recognize or communicate about symptoms
    • T1DM or T2DM with HbA1c >7%
    • Newly diagnosed cases (within 1 year at the time of referral)
    • Insulin pump users
Disorder of sexual differentiations
    Confirmed or suspected
  • ambiguous genitalia
  • undervirilized male or virilized female
  • congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Endocrine Oncology
    Confirmed or suspected
  • adrenal tumor / cancer
  • phaeochromocytoma
  • thyroid cancer
  • brain tumor with panhypopituitarism / central diabetes insipidus
  • hormone-secreting tumor e.g. Cushing’s syndrome, acromegaly, prolactinoma
Growth and puberty
  • Growth and pubertal issues suspected to be related to underlying genetic syndrome (e.g. Turner syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, Noonan syndrome, Russell Silver syndrome)

Referral Pathway

  • Outpatient referrals can be submitted to the HKCH Specialist Outpatient Clinic by the patient via HA Go app, email (hkchsopcbooking@ha.org.hk), or fax (3512 7579).
  • For special conditions or direct communication, please contact the endocrinology team on-call doctor through the hospital operator (tel: 3513 3888)