What is the aim of disease management programs?
The main aim of a DMP is to reduce the symptoms associated with a chronic disease and keep them from getting worse. Other targets include trying to prevent complications or accompanying diseases from developing.
In addition, this structured approach to treatment aims to help people cope with their disease and to show them ways of dealing with the demands of their treatment in everyday life. All of these things together aim to improve quality of life for program participants.
Disease management programs also aim to improve cooperation between the various specialists and institutions that provide care for a patient, such as family and specialist doctors, hospitals and rehabilitation centers. This is meant to ensure that the individual treatment steps are well coordinated and, for example, avoid the same medical test being done twice unnecessarily.