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Understanding change in health and illness over time is central to creating and evaluating interventions for individuals, families, and populations. The term health trajectory is a succinct and useful way to describe change in health status over time.
With the arrival of symptoms and diagnosis, the ‘chronic illness trajectory’ model follows sequential phases: 1) stable and unstable, managed with usual care; 2) acute and critical, requiring hospitalizations and intensive treatments; 3) post-acute ‘comeback’ or ‘downward’, depending on the disease control; and 4) dying phase. 21
12 mar 2021 · Although there is no universal consensus about the definition, it is common to apply the term chronic illness when there is a disease with a prolonged trajectory for which there is no curative treatment, and when the condition impacts the persons’ life and functioning and requires monitoring and specific management measures . Chronic illness ...
1 mar 2024 · An understanding of the dynamic multidimensional trajectories of patients with progressive illnesses helps clinicians consider individual holistic needs and have meaningful conversations with patients and families about advance care planning.
This article offers a revised version of the Corbin and Strauss Chronic Illness Trajectory Framework. The most notable changes include a greater emphasis on health promotion and illness prevention, streamlined language to make it more user friendly, and increased focus on the global influences on health care.
15 lip 2021 · Table 2 outlines the nine phases in the Chronic Illness Trajectory Model, their definitions , and example quotes from our cohort. Table 3 lists the patient work tasks involved in each phase. From our participants, we identified examples of patient work tasks in the following phases: trajectory onset, stable, unstable, acute, crisis, and comeback.
McCorkle & Pasacreta, 2001- explains eight phases of chronic illness trajectory . Initial or pretrajectory phase - occurs before any signs and symptoms are present. Trajectory onset phase- occurs with the first onset of signs and symptoms and includes the diagnostic period.
