Clinically dominant conditions |
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Symptomatic versus asymptomatic chronic conditions |
Treatment for symptomatic chronic conditions focuses on improving patients' symptom profiles, functioning and quality of life, and may also delay or prevent poor long-term outcomes.
Examples: chronic pain, depression, incontinence, falls/fear of falling, functional disability
Treatment of asymptomatic chronic conditions focuses almost exclusively on preventing downstream adverse events and early mortality.
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Concordant versus discordant chronic conditions |
Concordant conditions represent parts of the same overall pathophysiologic risk profile and are more likely to be the focus of the same disease and self-management plan.
Discordant treatments are not directly related in either their pathogenesis or management.
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