In "Organizing Care for Patients With Chronic Illness Revisited", an August 2019 Early View commentary from the Milbank Quarterly, Ed Wagner reflects on the 23 years since the publication of our seminal Milbank article that introduced the concepts of the Chronic Care Model.  

The Regional Eye Care Systems Assessment Tool (RECSAT) was developed in 2012 by the Brien Holden Vision Institute in Sydney, Australia as part of the Vision CRC (Cooperative Research Centre,) Based on an adaptation of our Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC v3.5) and administered in 2013 and 2015, the RECSAT facilitated regional discussions in Australia regarding systems perf

A new publication by Cara C. Lewis, PhD and colleagues discusses the need for mental health care professionals to act on identified social risk factors, and in what ways. Please read  "Social and Mental Health Care Integration: The Leading Edge" for more information and the full paper text.

Courtesy of researcher Lubomira Tkacova, PhD and her team at the University of Presov in the Slovak Republic, we are pleased to make available a Slovakian translation of our PACIC instrument (DOTAZNÍK NA POSÚDENIE STAROSTLIVOSTI  PRI CHRONICKÝCH OCHORENIACH). This is the 26-item version of the survey.

The Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) has been translated into Thai (แบบสอบถามการดูแลของโรคเรื้อรัง) . We offer the PACIC-Thai on behalf of Dr. Katja Krug and her translation team at the University Hospital/ Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Department of General Practice and Health Services Research/ Abt. Allgemeinmedizin und Versorgungsforschung, Heidelberg, Germany.

"Low-value care: an intractable global problem with no quick fix" is a May 2018 BMJ Quality & Safety editorial by Michael Parchman and John Mafi that discusses one of the most pressing problems in healthcare across the world. Low-value care raises costs, causes iatrogenic patient harm, and often interferes with the delivery of high-value care.

The Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) 26-item survey was translated into Lithuanian by Domeikiene A. PhD, Trakselyte V., Gabryte D., Staniuliene A., Department of Family Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas Hospital Clinics, Lithuania and Ivanauskiene R. PhD, Health System Research Laboratory, Health Research Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania.

The Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) 20-item survey was translated into Lithuanian by Domeikiene A. PhD, Trakselyte V., Gabryte D., Staniuliene A., Department of Family Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas Hospital Clinics, Lithuania, and Ivanauskiene R. PhD, Health system research laboratory, Health Research Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania.

Courtesy of Nouf Sahal Al-Harbi PhD, Researcher, College of Applied Studies and Community Services, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, we are pleased to make available an Arabic translation of our PACIC instrument. This is the 26-item PACIC.

This article proposes preliminary measures for assessing the impact of patient engagement on the research process and outcomes of research studies. Co-authored by Leah Tuzzio, MPH.