DISEASE BURDEN

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The impacts, direct and indirect, of the patient’s health condition that has a negative effect on his or her health, functioning, and overall well-being. Disease burden includes (but is not limited to): the physical and physiologic impacts of the disease and its symptoms; co-morbidities; emotional and psychological effects of the disease, its management, or prognosis; social impacts; effects on relationships; impacts on the patient’s ability to care for self and others; time and financial impacts of the disease and its management; and considerations on the impacts on the patient’s family.

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