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A Collaborative M-Health Platform for Evidence-Based Self-Management and Detection of Chronic Multimorbidity Development and Progression

A Collaborative M-Health Platform for Evidence-Based Self-Management and Detection of Chronic Multimorbidity Development and Progression
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Author(s): Kostas Giokas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Panagiotis Katrakazas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)and Dimitris Koutsouris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 21
Source title: Health Care Delivery and Clinical Science: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3926-1.ch034

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Abstract

The ageing process of EU population has played a key role raising the prevalence of chronic disease, with more than 80% of people in the last age group (65-74) reported to be having three or more long-term Multimorbidity or Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCCs). The main problem is that currently, clinicians have limited guidance, as well as evidence of how to approach care decisions for such patients. As a consequence, the understanding of how to best take care of patients with multimorbidity conditions, may lead to improvements in Quality of Life (QoL), utilization of healthcare, safety, morbidity and mortality. The root of this problem is not narrowly confined to guidelines development and application, but is inherent throughout the translational path from the generation of evidence to the synthesis of the evidence upon which guidelines depend.

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