RealFeedApp Over 80% of New Zealand healthcare costs fund care for chronic conditions
New analysis reveals that hospital data fails to capture more than half of multimorbidity cases, as general practitioners manage diabetes, heart disease, and asthma outside the hospital.
- Field
- medicine and diagnostics
- What they did
- Researchers found that hospital medical records fail to capture more than half of cases where patients have multiple chronic conditions at once.
- Why it matters
- This knowledge will help improve healthcare planning and funding, as current data does not reflect the full picture of patients' needs for long-term care.
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