Chronic Disease Management

• Main Author: Nuovo, Jim (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Nursing.; Primary care (Medicine).; Medicine & Public Health.; Primary Care Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

Chronic Disease Management presents primary care clinicians and allied health professionals with helpful ways to care for patients with conditions such as diabetes, asthma, congestive heart failure, and chronic pain. To effectively and efficiently provide care for patients with chronic diseases, a p...

Table of Contents:

• Background
• Overview of Chronic Disease Management
• Self-Management in Chronic Illness
• Use of Group Visits in the Treatment of the Chronically Ill
• Chronic Disease Care: Creating Practice Change
• Medication Management in Chronic Diseases
• Providing Culturally Competent Chronic Disease Management: Diabetes Mellitus
• Management of Specific Diseases
• Type 2 Diabetes
• Asthma
• Heart Failure
• Osteoarthritis
• Obesity
• Depression
• Chronic Pain.