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1996 Chartbook Highlights National Trends, Impacts and Costs of Chronic Care
Trends monitoring in chronic care
From 1992 to 1996, researchers from the University of California created a chronic care chartbook that describes national trends in chronic illness. The research team also published a series of background papers, which were eventually collected in a book.
Key Results
- In November 1996, the research team published the chartbook, Chronic Care in America: A 21st Century Challenge, which discusses national trends in chronic care, with a focus on its impacts and costs.
- The research team produced papers on the following subjects:
- One background paper for each of seven chronic care sub-populations.
- A paper synthesizing these background papers.
- A paper chronicling the history of the development and maintenance of indicator systems.
- The research team collected the essays in a book—along with a paper synthesizing these background papers—Indicators of Chronic Health Conditions: Monitoring Community Level Delivery, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Funding
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funded this project through two contracts totaling $421,061.