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Chronic illness

Search for Chronic illness in the CIRRIE database

Thesaurus entry

Scope note: Diseases of slow progression and long duration

Narrower terms

Use these terms to retrieve more specific results in a search:

• Allergies
• Arthritis
• Asthma
• COPD
• Cardiac disorders
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Emphysema
• Tuberculosis

Related terms

Use these terms to retrieve similar results in a search:

• Long term care
• Nursing homes
• Pain
• Respiratory disease
• Terminal illness

Database Information

Prolific authors

The following are the authors with the most articles on Chronic illness in the CIRRIE database in the past five years (2008-2013).

• Hudson M: 14 articles
• Brooks D: 13 articles
• Rief W: 13 articles
• Hill K: 13 articles
• Nijs J: 11 articles

Top journals

The following are the journals that have published the most articles about Chronic illness in the CIRRIE database in the past five years (2008-2013).

• Disability and Rehabilitation: 57 articles
• Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine: 53 articles
• Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation: 41 articles
• Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: 40 articles
• Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention: 39 articles