Role of specialists in common chronic diseases
- 17 March 2005
- Vol. 330 (7492) , 651-653
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.330.7492.651
Abstract
In recent years nurses in the NHS have taken on a larger role in managing patients with chronic disease. Specialist nurses work alongside both general practitioners and consultants to assist in managing people with complex problems in both hospital and community settings, and practice nurses now act as case managers to patients with conditions such as diabetes in primary care. However, there has been little integration of primary and specialist care through shared information systems and clinical protocols, such as that seen in US health maintenance organisations.2Keywords
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