title: Managing chronic care: a new delivery model.
abstract: It won't be easy to shift from an acute care to a disease management approach to chronic care, but the Institute of Medicine, for one, says such an approach could be the starting point for restructuring health care delivery.
authors.affiliation: H&HN magazine, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weinstock
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D019468:Disease Management; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008923:Missouri / Q000453:epidemiology; D017146:Models, Organizational; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology