Chronic care aims to maintain wellness by keeping symptoms in remission while balancing treatment regimes and quality of life.
[4] Chronic care is complex in nature because it may extend over a pro-longed period of time, requires input from a diverse set of health professionals, various medications and possibly monitoring equipment.
[1] In response to the increased government expenditure in dealing with chronic care policy makers are searching for effective interventions and strategies.
[6] One of the major problems from a health care system which is poorly coordinated for people with chronic conditions is the incidence of patients receiving conflicting advice from different providers.
[9] Individualised treatment plans are critical in treating chronic conditions because patients will place varying important on health outcomes.
[2] A 2001 survey by Mathematica Policy Research found that physicians feel they have inadequate training to deal with multiple chronic conditions.