Visualization of Global Disease Burden for the Optimization of Patient Management and Treatment

Frontiers in Medicine

Winfried Schlee¹ 

关键词: diagnostic tests;    patient management;    value-based decision-making;    treatment outcome;    disease progression;    treatment response;    subtyping;    gender differences;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmed.2017.00086

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe assessment and treatment of complex disorders is challenged by the multiple domains and instruments used to evaluate clinical outcome. With the large number of assessment tools typically used in complex disorders comes the challenge of obtaining an integrative view of disease status to further evaluate treatment outcome both at the individual level and at the group level. Radar plots appear as an attractive visual tool to display multivariate data on a two-dimensional graphical illustration. Here, we describe the use of radar plots for the visualization of disease characteristics applied in the context of tinnitus, a complex and heterogeneous condition, the treatment of which has shown mixed success.

【 授权许可】

CC BY