title: [Healthcare profiles: similarities and differences with respect to case and disease management].
abstract: In Healthcare systems, to overcome the problem of the fragmented response to the medical needs of patients, new theoretical models and operative approaches have been proposed; the process-based approach is one of the solutions more appreciated. This approach has been adopted in different ways in different healthcare systems: typically the Case management, the Disease management and, in Italy, the Healthcare profiles. These three healthcare models that share in the logic of a process-based approach present similarities and dissimilarities. This article aims to describe the features of Healthcare profiles compared to Case and Disease management, using a comparison scheme which contains items capable to distinguish the different Healthcare models.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Microbiologia, Università degli Studi di Torino. mariola.gianino@unito.it
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Gianino
authors.forename: S Chiadò
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Piat
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Renga
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D019468:Disease Management; D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy