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Nolte E, Knai C, editors. Assessing Chronic Disease Management in European Health Systems: Country reports [Internet]. Copenhagen (Denmark): European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies; 2015. (Observatory Studies Series, No. 39.)

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List of abbreviations

A&E

Accident and emergency

AFSOS

French national association of supportive care in cancer (l’Association francophone pour les soins oncologiques de support)

ALD

Long-term disease (affections de longue durée)

ANCRED

National Association for the Coordination of Diabetes Networks (Association nationale de coordination des réseaux diabète)

ARS

Regional health agencies (Agence Régionale de Santé)

ASALEE

Health Action by Teams of Self-employed Health Professionals

ASL

Local health enterprise (Azienda Sanitaria Locale)

AVOS

Working group preventive medicine Salzburg (Arbeitskreis Vorsorgemedizin Salzburg)

AWBZ

Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (Algemene Wet Bijzondere Ziektekosten)

BMI

Body mass index

CAPI

Contrats d’Amélioration des Paratiques Individuelles

CBO

Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement

CCG

Clinical commissioning group

CCIV

Competence Centre for Integrated Care (Competence Center integrierte Versorgung)

CCM

Chronic Care Model

CCO

Care coordination organization

CCP

Care coordination pilot programme (Irányított Betegellátási Rendszer)

COPA

Coordination of Professional Care for the Elderly

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

CQC

Care Quality Commission

DBC

Diagnosis treatment combinations (Diagnose behandel combinaties)

DCC

Cancer patient records (dossier communiquant de cancérologie)

DDKM

Danish Healthcare Quality Programme (Danske Kvalitetsmodel)

DIEP

Diabetes Interactive Education Programme

DISMEVAL

Developing and validating DISease Management EVALuation methods for European health care systems

DMP

Disease management programme

DNDR

National fund for the development of provider networks (Dotation Nationale de Développement des Réseaux)

DRG

Diagnosis-related group

EDISSE

Evaluation of Dutch Integrated Stroke Service Experiments

EHIF

Estonian Health Insurance Fund

EU

European Union

FAQSV

Fund for the quality improvement of ambulatory care (Fonds D’Amélioration De La Qualité Des Soins De Ville)

FGÖ

Healthy Austria Fund (Fonds Gesundes Österreich)

FIQCS

Quality and coordination of care funds (Fond d’Intervention pour la Qualité et la Coordination des Soins)

GDP

Gross domestic product

GÖG

Austria Health Corporation (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH)

GP

General practitioner

HAS

National Authority for Health (Haute Autorité de Santé)

HIF

Health Insurance Fund

HMO

Health maintenance organization

IGEA

Integration, Management and Treatment for Diabetes (project/strategy) (Integrazione, Gestione e Assistenza per la Malattia Diabetica)

INCa

National Cancer Institute

ISS

National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità)

IT

Information technology

IVS-OÖ

Integrated stroke care Upper Austria (Integrierte Versorgung Schlaganfall in Oberösterreich)

MIGAC

Missions d’intérêt général et d’aide à la contractualisation

MUMC

Maastricht University Medical Centre

NHIF

National Health Insurance Fund (Lithuania)

NHIFA

National Health Insurance Fund Administration (Hungary)

NHP

National Health Plan (Estonia)

NHS

National Health Service

NICE

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

NSF

National Service Framework

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OOP

Out-of-pocket (payment)

ÖSG

Austrian National Health Care Plan (Österreichischer Strukturplan Gesundheit)

PCT

Primary Care Trust

PHE

Public Health England

PNP

National plan for prevention (Piano Nazionale della Prevenzione)

POPP

Partnerships for Older People Projects

PRADO

Hospital discharge programme for patients with heart failure

PSRS

Regional strategic health plans (plan stratégique régional de santé)

QOF

Quality and Outcomes Framework

RCP

Multidisciplinary team meeting (Réunion de concertation pluridisciplinaire)

RHZ

Regional General Practitioners Association (Regionale Huisartsenzorg)

RIVM

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment

ROSP

Rémunération sur les objectifs de santé publique

SGB

Social Code Book V (Sozialgesetzbuch)

SHI

Statutory health insurance

SIKS

Integrated effort for people living with chronic diseases project

SSFA

Social Security Financing Act

SSN

National Health Service (Italy) (Servizio Sanitario Nazionale)

SSI

State Serum Institute

USL

Local health authority (Unità Sanitaria Locale)

VHI

Voluntary health insurance

Wmo

Social Support Act (Wet maatschappelijke ondersteuning)

ZonMw

Netherlands Institute for Health Research and Development

Zvw

Health Insurance Act (Zorgverzekeringswet)

© World Health Organization 2015 (acting as the host organization for, and secretariat of, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies)
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