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Table 1 Therapeutic Aim and Disease Category

From: EVITA: a tool for the early EValuation of pharmaceutical Innovations with regard to Therapeutic Advantage

prevention

to reduce risk of disabling or imparing events

treatment

to cure diseases, to substitute missing substances

 

indispensable to life, to modify or relieve symptoms

 

severity grading of the diseases:

 

I. acute life-threatening or severe chronic disease

 

II. rehabilitation

 

III. less severe acute or chronic disease

 

IV. application outside a treatment context

  1. Therapeutic Aim and Disease Category according to disease severity
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