… costs associated with single chronic conditions, studies into … Direct medical cost is the cost
of a defined health service or … studies obtained their costs from standalone data sources. Such …

… high service utilisation and cost of providing health care to patients with … measures, while
six studies focused on chronic conditions. … to hospitals 34 used Healthcare Resource Groups. …

… of chronic disease, multimorbidity and overall patient resource … level health care data from
the Ontario Ministry of Health and … rates of chronic disease prevalence and multimorbidity than …

… rates and use healthcare resources more intensively than … coexistence of two or more chronic
conditions in the same person… To study the impact of multimorbidity on healthcare costs, we …

… included in the current study’s definition are highly prevalent and thus meeting the criteria
of chronic diseases having the highest impact on the use of health care resources [16], limiting …

… To focus on conditions that define multimorbidity, we included only chronic diseases in our
… , also developed by the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project [24], defining the different …

… as on health systems and on society, particularly in resource-… people with chronic conditions
that multimorbidity should be … countries, lower age-specific rates are observed in low-income …

… Multimorbidity, the presence of 2 or more chronic conditions … data from all National Health
Service (NHS) hospital admissions … also be valuable and possible with other data sources. The …

… Its impact on health care resources and costs is well documented, 3–7 as … chronic conditions,
and our findings may therefore not generalize to patients with other types of multimorbidity. …

… chronic conditions (ie, multimorbidity) (1). Persons with … the Consumer Price indices for
medical care (CPI–M) (35). … big data sources like claims data and electronic health records…