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2. Online health communities - Wikipedia

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   A recent UK study developed a primary care intervention designed to promote patient engagement with an established and nurse-moderated online health community for asthma. This research study, conducted with primary care patients and clinicians in London, developed a structured consultation process to introduce patients to the Asthma+Lung UK ...

3. Chronic care - Wikipedia

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   Chronic care refers to medical care which addresses pre-existing or long-term illness, as opposed to acute care which is concerned with short term or severe illness of brief duration. Chronic medical conditions include asthma , diabetes , emphysema , chronic bronchitis , congestive heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver , hypertension and ...

4. Respiratory-driven protocols - Wikipedia

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   A respiratory driven protocol is an algorithmic medical process applied by respiratory practitioners as an extension of the physician. [1] Respiratory-driven protocols are implemented in hospitals for treatment of people suffering from asthma, bronchiolitis, and other respiratory illness.

5. Non-pharmacological intervention - Wikipedia

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   Complex or multicomponent interventions use multiple strategies, [5] and they often involve the participation of several types of care providers. [6] Non-pharmacological interventions can call on various fields of expertise, such as surgery, medical devices, rehabilitation, psychotherapy, and behavioral interventions. [6]

6. Disease management (health) - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, disease management is a large industry with many vendors. Major disease management organizations based on revenues and other criteria [5] [6] include Accordant (a subsidiary of Caremark), Alere (now including ParadigmHealth and Matria Healthcare), [7] Caremark (excluding its Accordant subsidiary), Evercare, Health Dialog, Healthways, LifeMasters (now part of StayWell ...

7. Chronic care management - Wikipedia

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   Fragmentation of care is a risk for patients with chronic diseases, because frequently multiple chronic diseases coexist, a phenomenon known as multimorbidity. Necessary interventions can require input from multiple specialists that may not usually work together, and to be effective, they require close, careful coordination.

8. Transitional care - Wikipedia

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   The Care Transitions Intervention (CTI) [10] is a coaching intervention to assist patients in resuming self-care following a change in health status. It uses coaching techniques to ensure that patients are comfortable in managing their own medications and their own health information, understand the signs and symptoms that should lead them to ...

9. Medical home - Wikipedia

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   The medical home, [1] also known as the patient-centered medical home or primary care medical home (PCMH), is a team-based health care delivery model led by a health care provider [2] to provide comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with a goal to obtain maximal health outcomes.