Indicators for four basic components of care for T2DM patients were defined a) timely screening for complications and comorbidity; b) non-pharmacological treatment; c) pharmacological treatment; and d) health outcomes.
Findings from this study also urges program managers and practitioners to consider VCT as an important component for care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, VCT services should be provided free of charge and the effort of obtaining drugs should be made so that those who test positive need to access treatment, care and support.
The new World Health Organization (WHO) prenatal care model recommends a minimum of four visits and provides detailed instructions on the basic components of care for the four-visits for both industrialised and developing countries [ 4].
Significant explanatory variables for components of care other than medications are shown in Table 6.
Family education and the establishment of a multidisciplinary continuum of care are important components of care for the majority of patients with IS.
Indeed, the full set of analyses failed to find a consistent association between sample size and rank order for Components of Care, Treatments and Study Intentions.
Our findings reinforce this fact explaining the reasons: the unavailability of medication and diagnostics within government primary care facilities and the need for patients to visit different facilities for different components of care within the expensive private sector.
The relationship of all these variables was examined separately for different components of care, i.e. pharmacotherapy, physician visits, psychotherapy and finally the overall treatment adequacy.
The lack of evidence found for certain components of care may be because specific interventions lend themselves more easily to effectiveness research than other aspects of care such as therapeutic relationship and clinical governance.
A small number of concerns were raised about nurse-led care (5), but suggestions were made for key components of care (6) that would minimise risks when moving to a nurse-led model.
Components of care include, for example, the intervention itself as well as the process and context of healing, which are intertwined in a whole system based on a unique and consistent philosophical foundation.
