continuous care team has a significant role in the treatment of chronic psychiatric patients and hence mental health services. this article retrospectively studied 55 patients of continuous care system at the shahid esmaily psychiatric center. results showed that compared to three years before intervention, during three years post intervention relapse rates, days of hospitalization (90%) and co...

background: population aging has social, economic and political consequences. most family caregivers prefer to care for their family member older person with chronic disease at home. despite traditional culture within iranian families, in some cases, hospitalization of the elderly in nursing home is inevitable, and this affects the old person and his/her family. the aim of this study was to exp...

This paper considers an implication of the idea that proposals for integrated care for older people should start from a focus on the patient, consider co-production solutions to the problems of care fragmentation, and be at a system-wide, cross-organisational level. It follows that the analysis, design and therefore evaluation of integrated care projects should be based upon the journeys which ...

quality of nursing care in chronic heart diseases: concept analysis based on hybrid model    gholami m [1] , mohammadi f [2] *, fallahi m [3] , seyed bagher maddah s [4] , ahmadi a [5] , rafii f [6] , khankeh h r [7]     received: 22 jan, 2013 accepted: 9 apr, 2013    abstract  background & aims : quality of nursing care as a concept is subjective, multidimensional, ambiguous, neutral, related ...

PROBLEM STATEMENT Unprecedented consumption of health care resources in the USA coupled with increasing rates of chronic disease has fueled pursuit of improved models of health care delivery. The Chronic Care Model provides an organizational framework for chronic care management and practice improvement. Sea Mar, a community health care organization in Washington state, implemented the Chronic ...