Are patients with chronic diseases a new challenge to general practice?

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Are patients with chronic diseases a new
challenge to general practice?

• Chairs
• Associate professor, PhD Dorte Ejg Jarbøl
• Professor, GP, PhD Jens Søndergaard
• Research Unit of General Practice,
• Institute of Public Health,
• University of Southern Denmark

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The Danish population and health care attendance
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Sundhedsstyrelsen 2007 and Peter Vedsted
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• Increasing prevalence of chronic diseases
• Increasing amount of treatment possibilities
• General practice is supposed to take on the role
  as coordinator of prevention, treatment and
  rehabilitation

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• We cannot identify all persons with chronic
  diseases!
• We are small wheels in a big machine we have no
  or only minor influence on what happens to the
  patients!
• Our role as coordinators of care is not well
  defined!
• It is very difficult to reorganise my practice!

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• Presenters
• PhD student, MD Luise Mølenberg Begtrup. Patients
  with irritable bowel syndrome in general
  practice
• PhD student, MD Karen Kjær Larsen. Cardiac
  Rehabilitation in General Practice
• PhD student, MD, GP Jesper Lykkegaard. Why do
  patients with severe chronic obstructive
  pulmonary disease need 6-monthly check-ups at
  their general practitioner?
• PhD student, RN Loni Ledderer. Why do clinics
  not follow the same code of practice?
• Associate professor, MD, PhD Dorte Ejg Jarbøl.
  Final aspect. Where are we heading?

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Questions and comments are welcome!