This article explores how to address the needs of the growing number of older patients in
primary care practice. Primary care is not a fixed organisational structure but a combination of …

Background Little is known about how patients with low socioeconomic status (SES)
experience their chronic disease, and how it impacts health-related quality of life (HRQoL). …

Background Inspired by American examples, several European countries are now developing
disease management programmes (DMPs) to improve the quality of care for patients with …

Background The healthcare system is faced by an ageing population, increase in chronic
conditions and multimorbidity. Multimorbid patients are faced with multiple parallel care …

Today we face an important demographic and epidemiological transition, confronting us with
the challenge of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which occur more and more in the …

PURPOSE We set out to assess whether a high sense of coherence (SOC) protects from
adverse health outcomes in patients aged 80 years and older who have multiple chronic …

Full article: The relationship of multimorbidity with disability and frailty in the oldest patients:
A cross-sectional analysis of three measures of multimorbidity in the BELFRAIL cohort Skip …

Background Pay-for-performance systems raise concerns regarding inequity in health care
because providers might select patients for whom targets can easily be reached. This paper …

Discussion: The three cases demonstrate how goal-oriented care has the potential to catalyse
integrated care. Exploration of these cases suggests that goal-oriented care can serve to …

Income inequality has been clearly associated with reduced population health. A body of
evidence suggests that a strong primary care system may mitigate this negative association. …