CARE Mission Statement 2009-2014
The CARE group consists of a team of international, interdisciplinary health professionals and patients who aspire to promote, evaluate and shape models of team and non-pharmacologic interventions for (rehabilitative) care in arthritis.
Goals:
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To facilitate research interactions regarding team care in musculoskeletal diseases with input from current medical and non medical research.
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To further evaluate and develop alternate forms of team care and team member roles.
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To create and evaluate effectiveness of new forms of non- pharmacological/non-surgical health care with a holistic view and with the patients´ perspectives.
THESE ARE FUNCTIONS TO ACHIEVE MISSION
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To organize CARE conferences every second year (next in Nancy, France in 2010)
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To facilitate inclusion of team care in guidelines for arthritis care in North America and Europe by 2009
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To support sessions on non pharmacological care and research on international scientific meetings (such as the annual meetings of the ACR and EULAR)
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To develop and define the role of the team in :
Education of patients (for prevention and treatment)
Vocational rehabilitation
Facilitating the participation of patients in team care and research
Complicated patient cases e.g. long standing pain or multi handicap
Pre- and postoperative care
This could be done by co-organizing study groups or workshops
To have specific session(s) about outcomes in non-pharmacological care on OMERACT 10 (2010)
Ingemar Petersson (Chair) and Maura D Iversen (Vice-chair) of the International CARE committee