Taxonomy of the burden of treatment: a multi-country web-based qualitative study of patients with chronic conditions
BMC MedicinePublished 13 May 2015Open access
Viet-Thi Tran, Caroline Barnes, Víctor M. Montori, Bruno Falissard, Philippe Ravaud
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The authors' taxonomy of the burden of treatment, provided by patients with chronic conditions from different countries and settings, supports the development of tools to ascertain theurden of treatment and highlights potential targets for interventions to minimize it.
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Our taxonomy of the burden of treatment, provided by patients with chronic conditions from different countries and settings, supports the development of tools to ascertain the burden of treatment and highlights potential targets for interventions to minimize it.
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