5 Implications of disease progression include restrictions in daily activities, reduced work productivity, and diminished quality of life.
Furthermore, the down-stream implications of disease management practices (e.g. vaccination or culling), also merit careful reflection.
Patient information centres provide information about disease, treatment, diagnostic procedures, social aspects and implications of disease to patients and in case of paediatric patients to their parents.
The second objective was to consider changes in the EU-import regulations and third, to investigate implications of disease awareness and general surveillance in Switzerland.
Despite the huge economic importance of this pathogen (contained within this article and in Torriani et al., 2015), solid facts in peer-reviewed publications regarding yield losses or, indeed, the financial implications of disease are hard to find.
Many new treatment options make unprecedented outcomes achievable in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). 1 2 In parallel, insights on the importance of early effective therapy 3 4 and implications of disease activity on function 5 6 and joint damage 6– 8 led to paradigmatic changes in therapeutic approaches, such as frequent evaluations of disease activity to allow for timely changes of therapies.
The cost estimates for a relapse episode based on escalating levels of management presented in this paper provide valuable inputs for decision-makers and researchers seeking to evaluate and understand the economic, as well as the clinical implications of disease modifying drugs for MS. This study provides decision-makers costs heretofore unknown based on current management practices.
It is important to note that the present calls under Horizon 2020 are much broader in scope and encourage cross-sector research, including social implications of diseases, integrated care, understanding the existing relationship between diseases and reducing inequalities.
