Organisation of services for people with cardiovascular disorders in primary care: transfer to primary care or to specialist-generalist multidisciplinary teams?
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...During the last decade a shift of some services from secondary to primary care has tended to occur, the rationale being to make better use of health care resources [17]....
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...The existing evidence about chronic disease management in community setting A well-known example of an approach to the management of chronic health conditions outside the specialist setting is Wagner's Chronic Care module (CCM) [26], which has been applied to, among other conditions, congestive heart failure, asthma and diabetes....
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...A well-known example of an approach to the management of chronic health conditions outside the specialist setting is Wagner's Chronic Care module (CCM) [26], which has been applied to, among other conditions, congestive heart failure, asthma and diabetes....
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...Developed more than a decade ago, the CCM is a widely adopted approach to improving ambulatory care that has guided clinical quality initiatives in the United States and around the world....
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...The accumulated evidence of the CCM’s effectiveness in articles published since 2000 appears to support the CCM as an integrated framework to guide practice redesign [27]....
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...Although work remains to be done in areas such as cost-effectiveness, these studies suggest that redesigning care using the CCM leads to improved patient care and better health outcomes....
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...In economically developed countries, cardiovascular disorders account for substantial proportions of health care expenditure [4-6]....
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