The Burden of Treatment

What do patients experience when being under treatment? What does it mean of having a chronic condition?

Tran et.al conducted in 2015 a qualitative study out of which they created a Taxonomy of the Burden of treatment. This taxonomy are of great help to all health professionals in order to create a higher level of imaginative empathy towards their clients, as well as an obligation for collaboration among health professionals to minimise the burden and even provide substitute care cross professional practices.

Schermafbeelding 2019-03-22 om 14.24.26

 

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-015-0356-x

 

Taxonomy of the burden of treatment: a multi-country web-based qualitative study of patients with chronic conditions

  • Viet-Thi TranEmail author,
  • Caroline Barnes,
  • Victor M. Montori,
  • Bruno Falissard and
  • Philippe Ravaud