Revisiting the concept of 'chronic disease' from the perspective of the episode of care model. Does the ratio of incidence to prevalence rate help us to define a problem as chronic?

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-23

  Soler, Jean K ^a,b   Okkes, Inge ^b,c   Oskam, Sibo ^c   Van Boven, Kees ^d   Zivotic, Predrag ^e   Jevtic, Milan ^f   Dobbs, Frank ^a   Lamberts, Henk ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Mediterranean Institute for Primary Care   (Malta)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Health Information Unit Manager   (Serbia)

^f Saga System Integration   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Electronic medical record; Electronic patient record; Epidemiology; Episode of care; Family medicine; General practice; Incidence; International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC); Longitudinal; Malta; Prevalence; Serbia; The Netherlands; Transition project

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EUROPE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EPISODE OF CARE; EUROPE; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PREVALENCE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872591964     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v20i1.44     Document Type: Article

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