Coordination between care levels is essential to increase the efficiency of the Health System; vascular disease has an important role in this respects, as it includes frequent, serious and vulnerable conditions. Consensus documents are an essential tool to obtain these aims. This document is not expected to replace the Clinical Guidelines, but tries to establish the basis of the shared management of the patient with vascular disease (peripheral arterial disease, diabetic foot, and chronic venous insufficiency) in three ways: to determine the profile of the patient who should receive priority follow-up at every level; to establish the skills that every professional must have, and to set and to prioritise the referral criteria in both directions.
La coordinación entre niveles asistenciales constituye un elemento esencial para incrementar la eficiencia del sistema sanitario; en este sentido, la enfermedad vascular ocupa un lugar destacado por incluir entidades frecuentes, graves y vulnerables.
Los documentos de consenso constituyen una herramienta fundamental para conseguir este objetivo. Este documento no pretende sustituir a las guías clínicas, sino que trata de establecer las bases del manejo compartido del paciente con enfermedad vascular (enfermedad arterial periférica, pie diabético e insuficiencia venosa crónica) en tres aspectos: determinar el perfil del paciente cuyo seguimiento ha de ser realizado de forma prioritaria en cada nivel; establecer las competencias que debe asumir cada profesional, y fijar y priorizar los criterios de derivación en ambos sentidos.
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