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?

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?

<p><strong>Background</strong> This is a study of the epidemiology of acute and chronic episodes of care (EoCs) in the Transition Project in three countries. We studied the duration of EoCs for acute and chronic health problems and the relationship of incidence to prevalence rates...

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Main Authors: Jean K Soler, Inge Okkes, Sibo Oskam, Kes van Boven, Predag Zivotic, Milan Jevtic, Frank Dobbs, Henk Lamberts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT 2013-12-01
Series:Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics
Subjects:
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
Online Access:http://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/article/view/44

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