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The relentless aging of the population and the chronification of many diseases have resulted in the emergence of a new kind of patient, the Frail Chronic Patient. These patients are characterized by presenting, among others, with multiple conditions, polypharmacy, functional impairment, dependence of different types and at different levels, chronification of disease and geriatric syndromes.
The last few years have seen an increased interest in this kind of patients, which has led to the need to reorient the clinical process to focus it more on the patient and not so much on the acute disease process they suffer. This should allow a comprehensive approach to patients where pharmacists play a key role as part of the multidisciplinary care team, ensuring continuity of care throughout the patient’s treatment journey.
The challenge of participating in the development of effective models and developing strategies to cope with chronicity, comorbidities and frailty is key for the future development of our profession, which should respond to the changing needs of society. The Cronos workgroup® was created to rise to this challenge.
The workgroup’s mission, vision and values are as follows:
- Mission: The CRONOS Workgroup seeks to facilitate the work of hospital pharmacists when approaching complex chronic patients across different clinical settings and adopting a cross-sectional and integrative perspective. The workgroup shall conduct different research, training and communication activities intended to improve the health outcomes achieved by medicines on complex chronic patients.
- Vision: The Cronos workgroup shall gear its efforts to ensuring that hospital pharmacists are recognized for their clinical, educational and investigational leadership, which should be placed at the service of the general population and, particularly, of persons suffering from chronic diseases.
- Values: innovation and creativity, independence, transparency, flexibility
Comité Coordinador
Grupo CRONOS®