A systematic literature review looking for the definition of treatment burden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Treatment burden is an emerging concept in health care literature. It can complicate the patients' condition and perhaps result in poor adherence to treatment, which is linked to worse clinical outcomes. However, until now there is no definition for treatment burden recognized by all stakeholders. This review was prepared in order to find what available definitions for treatment burden are present in the literature.

Methods

A systematic review of the literature was prepared looking for definitions of treatment burden in adult patients. Articles about adults aged 18 years or older from both genders with one or more medical conditions that contained a (new) definition of treatment burden were included. The search approach consisted of conventional systematic review

SUBMITTER: Alsadah A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7150517 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature