Variable 1 | Therapeutic approach of the issue patient, in the context of the given PCU |
Variable 2 | Laboratory data, in relation to the laboratory facilities of the given PCU |
Variable 3 | Community Approach: interrelation between patient's disease and primary care services |
Variable 4 | Family record: complete genogram or family pedigree, as well as record of existing dynamics within the family |
Variable 5 | Patient assessment: Prioritising of diagnostic problems and differential diagnosis (organisation of data), as well as the proposed steps and further measures needed for disease management within the primary care services |
Variable 6 | Management Strategy or Plan: Services suggested by the medical personnel of the PCU for the best possible management of the patient within the primary care services |
Variable 7 | Utility or Usefulness of primary care: Information related to the parts of the management plan that were actually implemented at the PCU and to the way this implementation offered positive or negative feedback to the PCU |
9 and 10 | All criteria covering the biopsychosocial point of view, as defined by Prof. Howard F. Stein [14], and in particular: |
Variable 8 | Information on "Who", i.e. about the subject-person (the way the patient perceives his/her disease or medical condition, and the effects on the patient's relationship with the other members of the family and the community) [3] |
Variable 9 | Information on "What", i.e. about the disease – illness – sickness perception of the subject, and the effects it has on the biological, functional and social level respectively |
Variable 10 | Information on "Where", i.e. data on the environment of the patient, and on how this environment affected the patient's medical condition or health problem [24–26] |