Publicaciones
- Co- and multimorbidity patterns in primary care based on episodes of care: results from the German CONTENT project
- Due to technological progress and improvements in medical care and health policy the average age of patients in primary care is continuously growing. In equal measure, an increasing proportion of mostly elderly primary care patients presents with multiple coexisting medical conditions. To properly assess the current situation of co- and multimorbidity, valid scientific data based on an appropriate data structure are indispensable. CONTENT (CONTinuous morbidity registration Epidemiologic NeTwork) is an ambitious project in Germany to ...
- Magnesium Intake in Relation to Systemic Inflammation, Insulin Resistance, and the Incidence of Diabetes
- To investigate the long-term associations of magnesium intake with incidence of diabetes, systemic inflammation and insulin resistance among young American adults.
- Comprehensive Primary Care for Older Patients With Multiple Chronic Conditions
- Older patients with multiple chronic health conditions and complex health care needs often receive care that is fragmented, incomplete, inefficient, and ineffective. This article describes the case of an older woman whose case cannot be managed effectively through the customary approach of simply diagnosing and treating her individual diseases. Based on expert consensus about the available evidence, this article identifies 4 proactive, continuous processes that can substantially improve the primary care of community-dwelling older patients ...
- Translating Chronic Illness Research into Practice
- Translating Chronic Illness Research into Practice presents recent developments in chronic illness research and their implications for clinical practice. It delivers both a synthesis and a critique of current chronic illness research and its applications to chronic illness prevention, treatment and care. It promotes advances in knowledge about chronic illness, including discussion of the future directions for chronic illness research and gaps in present knowledge about effective chronic illness prevention, treatment and care.
- All Together Now: A Conceptual Exploration of Integrated Care.
- Integrated care is a key strategy in reforming health systems around the world. Despite its importance, the concept's polymorphous nature and lack of specificity and clarity significantly hamper systematic understanding, successful application and meaningful evaluation.
- International experiments in integrated care for the elderly: a synthesis of the evidence.
- The OECD countries have recently promoted policies of deinstitutionalisation and community-based care for the elderly. These policies respond to common cost pressures associated with population aging, and the challenge of providing improved care for the elderly. They aim to substitute less costly services for institutional ones, to improve patient satisfaction and decrease expenses. However, views concerning their success are mixed. We took a comparative cross-national approach to examine the evidence, to identify common features of ...
- Health and treatment priorities in patients with multimorbidity: report on a workshop from the European General Practice Network meeting 'Research on multimorbidity in general practice'.
- Setting health and treatment priorities is necessary when caring for multiple and complex patient issues. This is already done in the doctor-patient consultation-yet implicitly rather than explicitly. The aim of this European General Practice Network workshop was to advance a consultation approach that deals with shared priority setting.
- La atención compartida de procesos crónicos
- El perfil de demanda asistencial predominante, (caracterizado por el predominio de enfermos crónicos, activos que demandan una atención continuada acorde con la gravedad del proceso y una atención personalizada) en un momento en el que el sistema de salud no puede permitirse el lujo de seguir siendo ineficiente, contrasta con la falta de modelos probados y con la abundancia de ideas y teorías acerca de la atención integrada, de la gestión compartida y de la ...
- Nuevas formas de financiar medicamentos
- Sin duda alguna, la mejora en el tratamiento del dolor (especialmente el dolor crónico) es uno de los grandes retos de la salud pública de nuestro siglo.
- Cuidados Paliativos en Andalucía. Valoración de Profesionales del Sistema Sanitario Público Andaluz
- La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) define los cuidados paliativos (CP) como «el enfoque que mejora la calidad de vida de pacientes y familias que se enfrentan a los problemas asociados con enfermedades amenazantes para la vida, a través de la prevención y alivio del sufrimiento, por medio de la identificación temprana y la impecable evaluación y tratamiento del dolor y otros problemas físicos, psicosociales y espirituales». En un contexto demográfico de envejecimiento progresivo ...
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