Chronic Disease Management Approach to Treating Tobacco Addiction

2011 ◽  
Vol 171 (21) ◽  
pp. 1907 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal L. Benowitz
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Disease Management ◽  
Chronic Disease Management ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Tobacco Addiction ◽  
Disease Management Approach

A Flexible Electrochemical-Physiological Epidermal Hybrid Patch for Chronic Disease Management

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanghyuk Yoon ◽  
Hyosang Yoon ◽  
Seokgyu Ko ◽  
Chani Park ◽  
Md Abu Zahed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Disease Management ◽  
Chronic Disease Management

scholarly journals Primary Care Networks and Starfield’s 4Cs: A Case for Enhanced Chronic Disease Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 2926
Author(s):  
Chuan De Foo ◽  
Shilpa Surendran ◽  
Geronimo Jimenez ◽  
John Pastor Ansah ◽  
David Bruce Matchar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Disease Management ◽  
Chronic Disease Management ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Facilitators And Barriers ◽  
Design Options ◽  
First Contact

The primary care network (PCN) was implemented as a healthcare delivery model which organises private general practitioners (GPs) into groups and furnished with a certain level of resources for chronic disease management. A secondary qualitative analysis was conducted with data from an earlier study exploring facilitators and barriers GPs enrolled in PCN’s face in chronic disease management. The objective of this study is to map features of PCN to Starfield’s “4Cs” framework. The “4Cs” of primary care—comprehensiveness, first contact access, coordination and continuity—offer high-quality design options for chronic disease management. Interview transcripts of GPs (n = 30) from the original study were purposefully selected. Provision of ancillary services, manpower, a chronic disease registry and extended operating hours of GP practices demonstrated PCN’s empowering features that fulfil the “4Cs”. On the contrary, operational challenges such as the lack of an integrated electronic medical record and disproportionate GP payment structures limit PCNs from maximising the “4Cs”. However, the enabling features mentioned above outweighs the shortfalls in all important aspects of delivering optimal chronic disease care. Therefore, even though PCN is in its early stage of development, it has shown to be well poised to steer GPs towards enhanced chronic disease management.

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