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Chronic Care: Making the Case for Ongoing Care
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This revision provides an update of chronic health conditions in the United States and some of the charts could not be updated and remain as ...Abstract:
Chronic Conditions: Making the Case for Ongoing Care was created in December 2002 by Partnership for Solutions: Better Lives for People With Chronic Conditions, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national program. It was an update of a 1996 publication written by Catherine Hoffman and Dorothy Rice entitled Chronic Care in America: A 21st Century Challenge. This revision provides an update of chronic health conditions in the United States. Unfortunately, some of the charts could not be updated and remain as ...read more
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