title: Chronic illness: implications of a new paradigm for health care.
abstract: A major factor in determining and maintaining the form of our health care system is our underlying assumptions about the origins of problems related to health. The author explores the implications of the change from an acute simple disease model to a chronic complex illness model for the evaluation of quality in health care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Sciences, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: L G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Pawlson
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States