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This blog is powered by COMPAR-EU, an EU-funded project that identifies, compares, and ranks the most effective and cost-effective self-management interventions (SMIs) for adults in Europe living with type 2 diabetes, obesity, COPD, and heart failure. The project will provide support for policymakers, guideline developers and professionals to make informed decisions on the adoption of the most suitable self-management interventions through an IT platform, featuring decision-making tools adapted to the needs of a wide range of end users (including researchers, patients, and industry).
With our Self-Management Blog, we inform you about developments in research, policy, and practice. Self-experience reports, interviews, guest articles, and more are published monthly. Beyond that, the COMPAR-EU team recommends monthly interesting scientific articles for reading.
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LATEST BLOG ARTICLES
Testing and implementing self-management programs: new approaches needed in Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy
Promising Health Care Technologies, of which self-management programs are excellent examples, require new approaches, tools and foremost: attitudes in health practice, in health care research and in health policy.
Self-management on the go! The role of apps in self-management of chronic conditions
With the rise of interest in self-management both in the academic circles and in day-to-day life, apps promising support to self-manage have increased significantly with mixed results and some promising tendencies.
LATEST SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE OF THE MONTH
Criteria for Judging the Quality of Patient Decision Aids
There is a vast number of patient decision aids available developed by many different individuals and groups around the world. The International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration established an internationally approved set of criteria to help people determine the quality of patient decision aids.