JA-CHRODIS was present at the 18th European Health Forum Gastein, a three-day event held on 30 September to 2 October 2015 in Austria. The Forum is one of the most important health-related event in the European Union and a meeting point for experts from different fields within the health system. Co-leader of the multimorbidity work, Rokas Navickas contributed to the session Facing Multimorbidity: Challenges and Responses on Day 2, sharing essential facts and key trends of co-morbidity across Europe. Even though the consequences of multimorbidity are huge, they have not been researched to a great extent and the tendency to exclude multimorbid patients from general clinical trials research is preventing to collect good data on them.

Click to access Rokas Navickas’ presentation and press coverage of his session (Euractiv). Photos can be accessed here.

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