Continuity care in surgery: our experience
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Background For many years some demographic changes have been taking place that means also a constant growth of the elderly population. These changes cause an increase of “frail” patients, affected by chronic and degenerative diseases, often associated and affected by functional limitations and/or disabilities [1]. That has lead to an increasing demand for long term social and medical services with a subsequent rise in sanitary aids consumption. The traditional model of care offering specialist and episodic treatments, appears to be no longer suitable to guarantee the best results regarding a good quality of life and abilities [2].
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