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Dorte Ejg Jarbøl Research Unit of General Practice, Institute of Public Health,

Care for the chronically ill. Are patients with chronic diseases a new challenge to general practice ?. Dorte Ejg Jarbøl Research Unit of General Practice, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark djarbol@health.sdu.dk. Patients with chronic diseases

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Dorte Ejg Jarbøl Research Unit of General Practice, Institute of Public Health,

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  1. Care for the chronically ill.Are patients with chronic diseases a new challenge to general practice? Dorte Ejg Jarbøl Research Unit of General Practice, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark djarbol@health.sdu.dk. Dorte Jarbøl

  2. Patients with chronic diseases • How comprehensive should diagnostic processes be? Dorte Jarbøl

  3. The role as main coordinator for patients with chronic diseases. • Screen patients with chronic diseases for psychosocial vulnerability and offer them treatment and extra attention! Dorte Jarbøl

  4. Follow-up visits for COPD patients? • Find, treat or prevent the comorbidity Depression Cardiovascular disease Pulmonary cancer Osteoporosis … Dorte Jarbøl

  5. If patients with chronic diseases are a new challenge • How can we meet this challenge? Dorte Jarbøl

  6. Why do clinics not follow the same code of practice? • Existing beliefs of the appropriate health services are left unquestioned. • No intervention fits equally into every clinic • Purely technical, instrumental and practical issues are inadequate Dorte Jarbøl

  7. Care for the chronicallyill • In the diagnosticprocesses • As maincoordinator • With organisedfollow-up visits Patients withchronicdiseasesare a challenge to general practice. But wecanface up to it….. Dorte Jarbøl

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