Each year, chronic conditions cost the medical industry billions of dollars to treat. Besides the cost of treating chronic conditions, the indirect costs resulting from chronic disease are great, ...

More than 30 percent of patients who suffer heart failure die within one year, but education and support programs have been shown to improve that statistic. According to two studies presented today at ...

Knight et al 1 recently published in this journal a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of published evidence regarding the effect of disease management programs for patients with diabetes ...

Disease management programs that help guide the care of patients with chronic health problems appear to improve the quality of health care, but there is little evidence that such efforts actually save ...

Because of its often slowly progressive nature, dementia is often included among chronic disease management programs. Yet, for many reasons, its management demands different approaches. With the rise ...