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Adapting Chronic Disease Care for the Underserved: Innovations in the Safety-Net
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 26, Number 1, February 2015
- pp. 293-299
- 10.1353/hpu.2015.0019
- Article
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Safety-net hospitals are resource-constrained and serve complex patients yet are innovators in chronic disease care. Their strategies include personalized care, multidisciplinary teams, and information systems yielding real-time data. Safety-net providers are prime examples from which the health care community can learn to improve the delivery of chronic disease care.