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

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, May 2015
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Title
Taxonomy of the burden of treatment: a multi-country web-based qualitative study of patients with chronic conditions
Published in
BMC Medicine, May 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12916-015-0356-x
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Authors

Viet-Thi Tran, Caroline Barnes, Victor M. Montori, Bruno Falissard, Philippe Ravaud

Abstract

Management strategies for patients with chronic conditions are becoming increasingly complex, which may result in a burden of treatment for patients. To develop a Minimally Disruptive Medicine designed to reduce the burden of treatment, clinicians need to understand which healthcare tasks and aggravating factors may be responsible for this burden. The objective of the present study is to describe and classify the components of the burden of treatment for patients with chronic conditions from the patient's perspective. We performed a multi-country qualitative study using an online survey and a purposive sampling strategy to select English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking participants with different chronic conditions. Participants were recruited by physicians, patients' associations, advertisement on social media, and 'snowballing'. The answers were analyzed by i) manual content analysis with a grounded theory approach, coded by two researchers, and ii) automatic textual analysis by Reinert's method. Between 2013 and 2014, 1,053 participants from 34 different countries completed the online survey using 408,625 words. Results from both analyses were synthesized in a taxonomy of the burden of treatment, which described i) the tasks imposed on patients by their diseases and by their healthcare system (e.g., medication management, lifestyle changes, follow-up, etc.); ii) the structural (e.g., access to healthcare resources, coordination between care providers), personal, situational, and financial factors that aggravated the burden of treatment; and iii) patient-reported consequences of the burden (e.g., poor adherence to treatments, financial burden, impact on professional, family, and social life, etc.). Our findings may not be applicable to patients with chronic conditions who differ from those who responded to our survey. 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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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Unknown 241 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 41 17%
Researcher 32 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 11%
Student > Bachelor 19 8%
Other 13 5%
Other 54 22%
Unknown 60 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 60 24%
Nursing and Health Professions 36 15%
Social Sciences 20 8%
Psychology 14 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 9 4%
Other 34 14%
Unknown 72 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 241. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 April 2023.
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#4
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