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Methodology for Establishing a Community-Wide Life Laboratory for Capturing Unobtrusive and Continuous Remote Activity and Health Data
Published on: July 27, 2018
Life-Chart Methodology: a long past and a short history
Lorenzo Livianos-Aldana1, Luis Rojo-Moreno
1Medicine Department, Valencia Medical School, Hosptital la Fe, Valencia, Spain. lorenzo.livianos@uv.es
Objectives:
Nowadays, the use of the Life-Chart Methodology is common in bipolar disorder clinics. Our aim was to present a chart from the Archives of the University Heidelberg (Germany).
Methods:
The clinical case records dating from Emil Kraepelin's direction of the Psychiatric Clinic at Heidelberg were systematically screened.
Results:
Among the clinical records of patients suffering from manic depressive illness we located one record with a detailed charting of the clinical course.
Conclusions:
The chart reviewed shows that the Life-Chart Method was used more than a hundred years ago and for the same purpose, as an aid to clinicians.
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