Over recent years the public health system has shown increasing interest in patients' views for use as guideline criteria in evaluating the quality of assistance above all for those patients with chronic diseases. Hence the interest in psoriasis, which is a chronic disease frequently associated with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases. The aims of our study were to describe clinic characteristics of patients with psoriasis, the quality of the assistance perceived by patients arrived at outpatients clinics and the information received, in order to identify areas in Italy requiring improvement.
Altobelli, E., Maccarone, M., Petrocelli, R., Marziliano, C., Giannetti, A., Peris, K., Chimenti, S., Analysis of health care and actual needs of patients with psoriasis: a survey on the Italian population, <<BMC PUBLIC HEALTH>>, 2007; 7 (Aprile): 59-59. [doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-59] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/57590]
Analysis of health care and actual needs of patients with psoriasis: a survey on the Italian population
Peris, Ketty;
2007
Abstract
Over recent years the public health system has shown increasing interest in patients' views for use as guideline criteria in evaluating the quality of assistance above all for those patients with chronic diseases. Hence the interest in psoriasis, which is a chronic disease frequently associated with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases. The aims of our study were to describe clinic characteristics of patients with psoriasis, the quality of the assistance perceived by patients arrived at outpatients clinics and the information received, in order to identify areas in Italy requiring improvement.
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