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Organizational model for the management of patients with chronic allergic conditions
INTRODUCTION: Allergic conditions present a serious problem for the Polish population. The most common form of allergy is allergic rhinitis. Due to its chronic nature and a complex pathophysiological mechanism the allergic rhinitis could be associated with others comorbidities. That is why it is a p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6640018/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31333351 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ada.2019.84288 |
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author | Krzych-Fałta, Edyta Lisiecka-Biełanowicz, Mira Furmańczyk, Konrad Piekarska, Barbara Wojas, Oksana Samoliński, Bolesław |
author_facet | Krzych-Fałta, Edyta Lisiecka-Biełanowicz, Mira Furmańczyk, Konrad Piekarska, Barbara Wojas, Oksana Samoliński, Bolesław |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Allergic conditions present a serious problem for the Polish population. The most common form of allergy is allergic rhinitis. Due to its chronic nature and a complex pathophysiological mechanism the allergic rhinitis could be associated with others comorbidities. That is why it is a poses a considerable bio-psychosocial problem both for the affected individual patient and for the healthcare system. AIM: To identify organizational factors and analyse their effect on patients with chronic allergic conditions. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study group comprised 9,370 respondents (including 1,967 patients with allergic rhinitis (AR), 372 patients with self-reported bronchial asthma (BA1), and 351 patients with physician-diagnosed bronchial asthma (BA2)) aged from 20 to 44 years, some of whom were additionally examined (skin pick tests) in an outpatient setting. The findings obtained in the outpatient subgroup (n = 4,783) were analysed in more detail. The study was based on translated and validated ECRHS and ISAAC questionnaires. RESULTS: Over a half of the evaluated patients with AR visited a specialist due to their symptoms. Some respondents neither visited their doctor regularly nor had regular check-ups, which undoubtedly affected their quality of life. CONCLUSIONS: The authors propose an organizational model incorporating the position of a healthcare educator (HE) as a coordinator in the process of managing chronic allergic conditions in adult patients within the Polish healthcare system. Adult patient education by the HE would include introducing the principles of secondary and tertiary prevention in order to improve the quality of life in patients with chronic allergic conditions. |
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spelling | pubmed-66400182019-07-22 Organizational model for the management of patients with chronic allergic conditions Krzych-Fałta, Edyta Lisiecka-Biełanowicz, Mira Furmańczyk, Konrad Piekarska, Barbara Wojas, Oksana Samoliński, Bolesław Postepy Dermatol Alergol Original Paper INTRODUCTION: Allergic conditions present a serious problem for the Polish population. The most common form of allergy is allergic rhinitis. Due to its chronic nature and a complex pathophysiological mechanism the allergic rhinitis could be associated with others comorbidities. That is why it is a poses a considerable bio-psychosocial problem both for the affected individual patient and for the healthcare system. AIM: To identify organizational factors and analyse their effect on patients with chronic allergic conditions. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study group comprised 9,370 respondents (including 1,967 patients with allergic rhinitis (AR), 372 patients with self-reported bronchial asthma (BA1), and 351 patients with physician-diagnosed bronchial asthma (BA2)) aged from 20 to 44 years, some of whom were additionally examined (skin pick tests) in an outpatient setting. The findings obtained in the outpatient subgroup (n = 4,783) were analysed in more detail. The study was based on translated and validated ECRHS and ISAAC questionnaires. RESULTS: Over a half of the evaluated patients with AR visited a specialist due to their symptoms. Some respondents neither visited their doctor regularly nor had regular check-ups, which undoubtedly affected their quality of life. CONCLUSIONS: The authors propose an organizational model incorporating the position of a healthcare educator (HE) as a coordinator in the process of managing chronic allergic conditions in adult patients within the Polish healthcare system. Adult patient education by the HE would include introducing the principles of secondary and tertiary prevention in order to improve the quality of life in patients with chronic allergic conditions. Termedia Publishing House 2019-06-19 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6640018/ /pubmed/31333351 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ada.2019.84288 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Termedia Sp. z o. o. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Krzych-Fałta, Edyta Lisiecka-Biełanowicz, Mira Furmańczyk, Konrad Piekarska, Barbara Wojas, Oksana Samoliński, Bolesław Organizational model for the management of patients with chronic allergic conditions |
title | Organizational model for the management of patients with chronic allergic conditions |
title_full | Organizational model for the management of patients with chronic allergic conditions |
title_fullStr | Organizational model for the management of patients with chronic allergic conditions |
title_full_unstemmed | Organizational model for the management of patients with chronic allergic conditions |
title_short | Organizational model for the management of patients with chronic allergic conditions |
title_sort | organizational model for the management of patients with chronic allergic conditions |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6640018/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31333351 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ada.2019.84288 |
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