We report a case of tracheal stenosis that required the creation of a uniquely adapted permanent tracheostomy. The patient’s case was especially challenging because she had multiple disabilities causing limited movement in her upper extremities that prevented her from active involvement in selfcare activities. Co-ordinated efforts by an interdisciplinary team in a Czech health care environment ...

Background Education in diabetes mellitus is an ongoing process to promote/encourage the acquisition of knowledge on selfcare skills and control of the disease and this process can be facilitated by social support from family. The literature shows the benefits of educational interventions for people with diabetes mellitus, however, there are few studies on its long-term effects. Objective: To a...

Background People with diabetes and foot ulceration experience more depressed mood particularly when healing does not occur after prolonged treatment. Those who have depression and diabetes have poorer adherence to selfcare or treatment regimes, poor glycaemic control along with a greater risk of diabetes related complications and mortality. Screening for depression has been shown to be effecti...

The LifeMasters Supported SelfCare demonstration program provides disease management (DM) services to Florida Medicare beneficiaries who are also enrolled in Medicaid and have congestive heart failure (CHF), diabetes, or coronary artery disease (CAD). The population-based program provides primarily telephonic patient education and monitoring services. Findings from the randomized, intent-to-tre...

The paper by Reich et al. recently published in the IJIC compares healthcare expenditure of patients insured in a contracted capitated model, a contracted non-capitated model, and a telemedicine model [1]. Their evaluation showed that the telemedicine model was associated with an efficiency gain of 3.7% as opposed to 21.2% for the contracted capitated and 15.5% for the non-capitated model. The ...

The article documents the experiences of parenting an urban Indian Hindu middle-class couple at intersection virtual and physical spaces ideas. ideas documented in this paper have co-evolved as authors are their four-year-old daughter realised how participation a Facebook group is influencing them parents. relational perspective autoethnography used to examine mutual influences between partners...