PACIC is short for Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care. The questions in the PACIC ask about the chronic illness care received by the patients over the past 6 months. Conceptually thinking, which one is more likely to affect a patient’s blood pressure: chronic care received during the past 6 months or chronic care received 4 years ago? How much can the chronic illness care received during the past 6 months affect a patient’s blood pressure measured about 4 years later?
Dear Eindra,
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Hi Béatrice, Thanks for the suggested readings. I am requesting other researchers' opinion. What would be your personal view on this question?
'Chronic care received during the past 6 months or chronic care received 4 years ago'?
What happens today is the sum of the both procedures I guess
Agree with Béatrice : both Could be important to consider. It also depends on the setting e.g. elderly individuals tend to have a very stable drug consumption in our cohorts and 6 months and 4 yrs would be similar in most of them. Best Christophe
Totally agree with Béatrice and Christophe. It would be ideal to consider chronic care and its consistency/variation throughout all these years. However, in case a researcher, examining the association between PACIC and blood pressure, has limited resources (for example) and can measure PACIC only once, which one should s/he collect: PACIC data 6 months prior to blood pressure measurement (in a cross-sectional survey) or that 4 years before blood pressure measurement (in a longitudinal survey)?
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