Needless to say I
was concerned to read about the apparent non-appearance of a King's Fund
publication on the King's Fund database! But I've just done a Dialog
search our our db, and this did come up with the relevant record (see
below). So now I'm even more baffled as to why it didn't come up when you
did your search... If you solve the mystery, do let me know
off-list!
Yours, Lynette
Cawthra, Information & Library Service Manager, King's
Fund
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- Accession number & update
- 0000101570 20040101.
- Title
- Summary : Managing chronic disease : what can we learn from the US
experience?
- Source
- Series: Research paper summary,
Published by: King's Fund, London,
2004, 11p,
URL: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/pdf/chronic%20disease%20summary.pdf.
- Author(s)
- Dixon-Jennifer,
Lewis-Richard,
Rosen-Rebecca,
Finlayson-Belinda,
Gray-Diane.
- Corporate author(s)
- King's Fund.
- Abstract
- Chronic medical conditions such
as asthma, diabetes, heart failure and hypertension affect large numbers of
people, including patients, carers, families and friends. As the population in
England ages, growing numbers of patients will need help with managing complex, multiple conditions over
sustained periods. Apart from the burden of ill-health, treating these
conditions is likely to cost the NHS far more than elective surgical
procedures. This is a summary of a report which offers an analysis of five
managed care organisations across the United States and asks what lessons or
transferable models might emerge for health care in England. It asks how the
wider economic and social context affect how they work, examines the clinical
processes they use to manage chronic
disease, and puts forward
recommendations for the future NHS. (SMD).
- Descriptors
- chronic-disease;
managed-care-organisations;
models;
international-comparisons;
United-States-of-America;
United-Kingdom.
- Publication type
- WEBPUBL.
- Publication year
- 2004.
- Publication date
- 20040000.
- Notes
- Classmark: Web publications.