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Introduction: Psoriasis is a chronic disease in which patients feel stigmatization, social rejection, and suffer from low self-esteem. There are still unmet needs that make it necessary to define a new multidisciplinary approach to provide benefits not only to patients and their families but also to the Spanish National Health System (SNHS) and society. The aim was to define a new approach to better address the unmet needs of patients with psoriasis within the SNHS and to measure its impact from a social perspective, that is, in clinical, health care, economic, and social terms. Methods: Multidisciplinary experts identified, agreed on, and selected several health care interventions that were feasible for implementation in the SNHS. This process was carried out in four different areas: diagnosis, mild psoriasis, moderate psoriasis, and severe psoriasis. To estimate investment and social return, the social return on investment (SROI) method was used. Results: The new approach to psoriasis management in the SNHS comprised 18 proposals. The investment needed for the implementation of this new approach would amount to 222.77 million and its return to 1,123.11 million. This would yield a SROI ratio of 5.04 for every euro invested. Conclusion: The new approach to psoriasis management would yield a positive social return. The results will allow optimal strategic planning adapted to each assistance situation, to achieve a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach.
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Introducción. En tiempos donde los condicionantes demográficos, epidemiológicos, socioeconómicos y tecnológicos determinan fuertemente la manera en que se ejerce la medicina, foros como el Congreso de la Profesión Médica de Catalunya pueden aportar luz en los nuevos enfoques que exige el profesionalismo médico actual y futuro. Objetivo. Mostrar el proceso y las conclusiones de un consenso, llevado a cabo en la edición 2016 del congreso, acerca de los nuevos retos del profesionalismo y del perfil del médico que la sociedad de las próximas décadas va a necesitar. Sujetos y métodos. Se lleva a cabo un proceso participativo y estructurado de consenso, implementado en tres fases consecutivas: panel de expertos, peer-review telemático y debate intracongresual. Resultados. La participación activa de 21 expertos, de 2.025 aportaciones telemáticas y de 131 delegados congresuales genera un documento de propuestas compartidas que cuenta con índices de aprobación cercanos al 95% y que permite identificar y priorizar los retos percibidos en el profesionalismo y los atributos de los médicos del futuro reciente. Conclusiones. El profesionalismo médico se verá directamente interpelado por las nuevas condiciones sociales y por las nuevas propuestas para los sistemas sanitarios del futuro, donde los elementos de empoderamiento ciudadano, de toma compartida de decisiones clínicas, de prácticas colaborativas y marcos éticos impecables, asociados a una apuesta decidida por posiciones de liderazgo profesional y social del colectivo médico, van a constituir el contexto emergente de la práctica de la medicina, al que las organizaciones docentes deberán adaptarse (AU)
Introduction. In times where demographic, epidemiological, socio-economic and technological conditions strongly determine the way in which medicine is practiced, forums such as the Congress of the Medical Profession of Catalonia can inform on the new approaches required by current and future medical professionalism. Aim. To show the process and the conclusions of a consensus, carried out in the 2016 edition of the Congress, about the new challenges of professionalism and the profile of the physician that the Catalan society will need the next decades. Subjects and methods. A participatory and structured consensus process is implemented in three consecutive phases: expert panel, telematic peer-review and intra-congressional debate. Results. The active participation of 21 experts, 2,025 telematic contributions and 131 congressional delegates generated a document of shared proposals that has approval rates around 95% and that allows the identification and prioritization of the perceived challenges in professionalism and the attributes of physicians for the recent future. Conclusions. Medical professionalism will be directly challenged by the new social conditions and by the proposals for the health systems of the future, where the elements of citizen empowerment, of shared decision-making procedures, of collaborative practices in impeccable ethical frameworks and solid positions of professional and social leadership of doctors will constitute the emerging context of the practice of medicine, to which teaching organizations will have to adapt (AU)
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Humans , Health Occupations/education , Health Occupations/standards , Consensus Development Conferences as Topic , Education, Medical/organization & administration , Education, Medical/standards , Professional Review Organizations/organization & administration , Professional Review Organizations/standardsABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION: The Chronicity Prevention and Care Programme set up by the Health Plan for Catalonia 2011-2015 has been an outstanding and excellent opportunity to create a new integrated care model in Catalonia. People with chronic conditions require major changes and transformation within the current health and social system. The new and gradual context of ageing, increase in the number of chronic diseases and the current fragmented system requires this transformation to be implemented. METHOD: The Chronicity Prevention and Care Programme aims to implement actions which drive the current system towards a new scenario where organisations and professionals must work collaboratively. New tools should facilitate this new context- or work-like integrated health information systems, an integrative financing and commissioning scheme and provide a new approach to virtual care by substituting traditional face-to-face care with transfer and shared responsibilities between patients, citizens and health care professionals. RESULTS: It has been observed some impact reducing the rate of emergency admissions and readmission related to chronic conditions and better outcome related to better chronic disease control. Some initiative like the Catalan Expert Patient Program has obtained good results and an appropriate service utilization. DISCUSSION: The implementation of a Chronic Care Program show good results but it is expected that the new integrated health and social care agenda could provoke a real change and transformation. Some of the results related to better health outcomes and a decrease in avoidable hospital admissions related to chronic conditions confirm we are on the right track to make our health and social system more sustainable for the decades to come.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: We describe conceptual innovations in palliative care epidemiology and the methods to identify patients in need of palliative care, in all settings.In middle-high-income countries, more than 75% of the population will die from chronic progressive diseases. Around 1.2-1.4% of such populations suffer from chronic advanced conditions, with limited life expectancy. Clinical status deteriorates progressively with frequent crises of needs, high social impact, and high use of costly healthcare resources. RECENT FINDINGS: The innovative concept of patients with advanced chronic diseases and limited life prognosis has been addressed recently, and several methods to identify them have been developed. SUMMARY: The challenges are to promote early and shared interventions, extended to all patients in need, in all settings of the social care and healthcare systems; to design and develop Palliative Care Programmes with a Public Health perspective. The first action is to identify, using the appropriate tools early in the clinical evolution of the disease, all patients in need of palliative care in all settings of care, especially in primary care services, nursing homes, and healthcare services responsible for care provision for these patients; to promote appropriate care in patients with advanced diseases with prognosis of poor survival.
