Chronic Disease Management

Section I. Background

1. Overview of Chronic Disease Management
Jim Nuovo

2. Self-Management in Chronic Illness
Bridget R. Levich

3. Use of Group Visits in the Treatment of the Chronically Ill
Edward B. Noffsinger

4. Chronic Disease Care: Creating Practice Change
Thomas A. Balsbaugh

5. Medication Management in Chronic Diseases
Timothy W. Cutler, Marilyn Stebbins

6. Providing Culturally Competent Chronic Disease Management: Diabetes Mellitus
David Stempel, Bruce Allen Chernof

Section II. Management of Specific Diseases

7. Type 2 Diabetes
Jim Nuovo

8. Asthma
Samuel Louie

9. Heart Failure
William Lewis, Jim Nuovo

10. Osteoarthritis
Ernesto Zatarain

11. Obesity
Jim Nuovo

12. Depression
Jim Nuovo

13. Chronic Pain
Jim Nuovo

Avainsanat: Medicine & Public Health, Primary Care Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Nursing