Chronic Disease Management in the Primary Care
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2022) | Viewed by 37233
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chronic disease and its burden are threatening the sustainability of the healthcare system, so improving its management could be considered a strategic point.
Primary care provides the first contact, addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, often undifferentiated, and person-focused care over time, guaranteeing access and continuity of care for chronic conditions. It develops a partnership with patients, practices in the context of family and community, and can be considered a complex system of relationship between individuals, community, and a variety of health professionals and structures of care. Furthermore, as a consequence of the shift of many specialist outpatient and inpatient services to COVID care, the role of chronic care management in primary care has grown up.
In this perspective, the role of chronic disease management has to be interpreted on the basis of value-based healthcare issues, taking into account clinical outcomes along with safe and appropriate processes of care as well as patient experience and wellbeing of professionals in a context of predefined resources.
This Special Issue of the Journal of Personalized Medicine aims to highlight the current state of chronic disease management in primary care and showcase some of the latest findings in the field.
This issue will include studies that show evidence of chronic disease management in primary care having implications in policies or practices and reporting the use of innovative organizational models, technologies, performance measures (e.g., based on value) or patient/ community engagement.
Prof. Gianfranco Damiani
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Chronic diseases
- Multimorbidity
- Primary care
- Value-based
- Patient experiences
- Community engagement
- Health system and service model
- Clinical trials
- Disease management
- Health care quality