Table 5.
Distribution of the literature by condition to which the use of the concept was linked.
| Condition or Specialty linked | Number of sources (n = 62) | 
|---|---|
| Generic Categories | 20 (32.24%) | 
| Chronic illness | 12 (19.35%) | 
| Special Health Care Needs | 3 (4.84%) | 
| Cognitive impairment | 1 (1.61%) | 
| Intellectual disabilities | 1 (1.61%) | 
| Family medicine residency | 1 (1.61%) | 
| Psychiatry | 1 (1.61%) | 
| Reproductive health | 1 (1.61%) | 
| Condition-Specific | 35 (56.42%) | 
| Diabetes | 6 (9.68%) | 
| Rheumatology (total) | 6 (9.68%) | 
| - Rheumatology | 4 (6.45%) | 
| - Juvenile idiopathic arthritis | 2 (3.23%) | 
| Transplantation (total) | 6 (9.68%) | 
| - Transplant care | 5 (8.06%) | 
| - Liver transplant recipients | 1 (1.61%) | 
| Cardiology (total) | 4 (6.45%) | 
| - Cardiology care | 1 (1.61%) | 
| - Congenital Heart Disease | 3 (4.84%) | 
| Cancer (total) | 3 (4.84%) | 
| - Cancer | 1 (1.61%) | 
| - Cancer survivors | 2 (3.23%) | 
| Respiratory (total) | 3 (4.83%) | 
| - Respiratory diseases | 1 (1.61%) | 
| - Asthma | 1 (1.61%) | 
| - Cystic Fibrosis | 1 (1.61%) | 
| Hematology (total) | 2 (3.22%) | 
| - Hemophilia | 1 (1.61%) | 
| - Thalassemia | 1 (1.61%) | 
| Neonatal Medicine (total) | 2 (3.22%) | 
| - Neonatal intensive care | 1 (1.61%) | 
| - Extremely low-birth-weight infants | 1 (1.61%) | 
| HIV | 1 (1.61%) | 
| Spina bifida | 1 (1.61%) | 
| Paediatric neuro-developmental patients | 1 (1.61%) | 
| Not applicable | 7 (11.29%) |