Chronic Illness Flashcards
% of Canadiens living with chronic illness?
33% (1/3)
62% of death is due to: (4)
COPD, Diabetes, Cancer and Heart disease
People with comorbidities greater risk of?
a. Adverse health outcomes
b. Higher hospitalization
c. Higher health care needs
Highest palliative care cost is in which setting?
Acute care settings
Phase of Illness:
- Crisis
- Chronic (long-haul–> is really long, it depend)
- Terminal
Distinguishing Chronic disease vs Chronic Illness? Chronic Disease:
- Long duration and generally of slow progression.
- No definite cure
- Gradual change over time
- Asynchronous evolution
Distinguishing Chronic disease vs Chronic Illness? Chronic illness:
- Lived experience of long-term disturbance, symptoms, condition or disorders
- How people cope with it
- Includes phenomena such as fatigue, pain, confusion, and/or stigma
Contributing factors:
Non-modificable risk factors (eg. genetic)
Behavioral risk factors (eg. smoking, diet)
Cultural and environmental condition (eg. work environment)
Intermediate condition leading to disease endpoints:
HBP
Hyperlipidemia
Obesity
Pre-diabetes
% of Canadians aged 20 and older currently have a chronic disease?
60%
Wagner’s Chronic Care Model, the 6 keys elements:
- Delivery System Design: how primary health care is organized
- Decisional Support
- Clinical Information Systems: innovative ways to store and access patient information
- Community Ressources and Policies (eg. existing self-management program within the community)
- Health Care Organization: from a reactive to a proactive system
- Self-Management
To have the best functional and clinical outcomes, as the Wagner’s Chronic Care Model is presented, the 6 keys elements need to be related to and interacting with:
- Informed, activated patient (if the patient is not motivated, they fell worse than people that are active)
- Prepared, proactive active team
(BOTH together –> to have a productive interaction)
The Expanded Chronic Care Model is
- Wagner + Alma Ata
- Include build healthy policy, create supportive environments, strengthen community action, develop personal skills and Reorient health services.
- Population Health Outcomes/functional and clinical outcomes
The chronic Illness Measurement framework is
- Framework to improve the chronic illness experience across the illness trajectory.
- Autor: Loiselle
- Include 4 perspectives: Patient perspective, family perspective, patient/family shared perspective, interactions with the healthcare system
- We often forget certain aspect of chronic illness (eg. pt with cancer could be okay but bc of healthcare system, get worried bc do not receive his result)
The chronic Illness Measurement framework: The Patient Experience
Patient-reported outcomes
Patient engagement/activation