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Chronic disease

Known as: Illnesses, Chronic, Chronic Disease [Disease/Finding], Chronic Illness 
Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible… 
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Highly Cited
2020
Highly Cited
2020
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study
Highly Cited
2020
Highly Cited
2020
Clinical course and outcomes of critically ill patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a single-centered, retrospective, observational study
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Standards of medical care in diabetes.
XI. STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING DIABETES CARE D iabetes is a chronic illness that requires continuing medical care and patient self… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Anemia of chronic disease.
New therapeutic strategies have emerged along with our understanding that disturbances of iron homeostasis, impaired… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Patient self-management of chronic disease in primary care.
Patients with chronic conditions make day-to-day decisions about--self-manage--their illnesses. This reality introduces a new… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women: Principal results from the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial
CONTEXT Despite decades of accumulated observational evidence, the balance of risks and benefits for hormone use in healthy… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Frailty in older adults: evidence for a phenotype.
BACKGROUND Frailty is considered highly prevalent in old age and to confer high risk for falls, disability, hospitalization, and… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Chronic disease management: what will it take to improve care for chronic illness?
  • E. Wagner
  • Effective clinical practice : ECP
  • 1998
  • Corpus ID: 35441249
M eeting the complex needs of patients with chronic illness or impairment is the single greatest challenge facing organized… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1990–2020: Global Burden of Disease Study
Review
1963
Review
1963
STUDIES OF ILLNESS IN THE AGED. THE INDEX OF ADL: A STANDARDIZED MEASURE OF BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FUNCTION.
The Index of ADL was developed to study results of treatment and prognosis in the elderly and chronically ill. Grades of the… 
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