Journal article
Collaborative Management of Chronic Illness
Annals of internal medicine, Vol.127(12), pp.1097-1102
12/15/1997
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-127-12-199712150-00008
PMID: 9412313
Abstract
In chronic illness, day-to-day care responsibilities fall most heavily on patients and their families. Effective collaborative relationships with health care providers can help patients and families better handle self-care tasks. Collaborative management is care that strengthens and supports self-care in chronic illness while assuring that effective medical, preventive, and health maintenance interventions take place. In this paper, the following essential elements of collaborative management developed in light of behavioral principles and empirical evidence about effective care in chronic illness are discussed: 1) collaborative definition of problems, in which patient-defined problems are identified along with medical problems diagnosed by physicians; 2) targeting, goal setting, and planning, in which patients and providers focus on a specific problem, set realistic objectives, and develop an action plan for attaining those objectives in the context of patient preferences and readiness; 3) creation of a continuum of self-management training and support services, in which patients have access to services that teach skills needed to carry out medical regimens, guide health behavior changes, and provide emotional support; and 4) active and sustained follow-up, in which patients are contacted at specified intervals to monitor health status, identify potential complications, and check and reinforce progress in implementing the care plan. These elements make up a common core of services for chronic illness care that need not be reinvented for each disease.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Collaborative Management of Chronic Illness
- Creators
- Michael Von Korff - Group Health CooperativeJessie GrumanJudith SchaeferSusan J Curry - Community and Behavioral HealthEdward H Wagner - Group Health Cooperative
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annals of internal medicine, Vol.127(12), pp.1097-1102
- DOI
- 10.7326/0003-4819-127-12-199712150-00008
- PMID
- 9412313
- ISSN
- 0003-4819
- eISSN
- 1539-3704
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/15/1997
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984366363302771
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