Further reflections on chronic illness care

Further reflections on TREC

The paper reviews the TREC Programme up to TREC-6 (1997), considering the test results, the substantive ®ndings for IR that follow and the lessons TREC o€ers for IR evaluation. The paper focuses on the ad hoc retrieval task, with discussion of other test tracks as appropriate. The paper summarises the structure of the TREC work and analyses the experimental data in some detail. The analysis of ...

Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept

Taking as its point of departure Bury's (1982) concept of chronic illness as biographical disruption, this paper provides a critical assessment of its fortunes since that time. Having `rescued' the concept from recent postmodern and disability critiques, the paper provides a series of further reflections on its strengths and weaknesses, including the notion of `normal illness'; the importance o...

Further Reflections on the Guillotine

Integrated care and the management of chronic illness: reflections on the proceedings of the 8th Annual Integrated Care Conference 2008

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Collaborative Chronic Care Networks (C3Ns) to transform chronic illness care.

Despite significant gains by pediatric collaborative improvement networks, the overall US system of chronic illness care does not work well. A new paradigm is needed: a Collaborative Chronic Care Network (C3N). A C3N is a network-based production system that harnesses the collective intelligence of patients, clinicians, and researchers and distributes the production of knowledge, information, a...