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Monitoring physical functioning as the sixth vital sign: evaluating patient and practice engagement in chronic illness care in a primary care setting--a quasi-experimental design

BACKGROUND: In Canada, one in three adults or almost 9 million people report having a chronic condition. Over two thirds of total deaths result from cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and respiratory illness and 77% of persons ≥65 years have at least one chronic condition. Persons with chronic...

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Autores principales: Richardson, Julie, Letts, Lori, Chan, David, Officer, Alexis, Wojkowski, Sarah, Oliver, Doug, Moore, Ainsley, McCarthy, Lisa, Price, David, Kinzie, Sarah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22471378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-13-29