title: Organisational capacity and chronic disease care: an Australian general practice perspective.
abstract: Although we are rapidly improving our understanding of how to manage patients with chronic illness in Australian general practice, many patients are still receiving suboptimal care. General practices have limited organisational capacity to provide the structured care that is required for managing chronic conditions: regular monitoring, decision support, patient recall, supporting patient self management, team work, and information management. This requires a shift away from episodic, acute models. Overseas research has shown that areas such as team work, clinical information systems, decision support, linkages and leadership are also important in managing chronic illness, but we do not know which of these are most important in Australia.
authors: Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales. j.proudfoot@unsw.edu.au
authors: Judith
authors: J
authors: Proudfoot
authors: Fernando
authors: F
authors: Infante
authors: Christine
authors: C
authors: Holton
authors: Gawaine
authors: G
authors: Powell-Davies
authors: Tanya
authors: T
authors: Bubner
authors: Justin
authors: J
authors: Beilby
authors: Mark
authors: M
authors: Harris
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001315:Australia; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D005194:Family Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D020399:Practice Management / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*