Future of multimorbidity research: how should understanding of multimorbidity inform health system design?

CM Boyd, M Fortin - Public health reviews, 2010 - Springer
Many people living with chronic conditions have multiple chronic conditions. Multimorbidity
is defined here as the co-existence of two or more chronic conditions, where one is not …

Multimorbidity: what do we know? What should we do?

R Navickas, VK Petric, AB Feigl… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Multimorbidity, which is defined as the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions, has
moved onto the priority agenda for many health policymakers and healthcare providers …

COPD and its comorbidities: impact, measurement and mechanisms

NA Negewo, PG Gibson, VM McDonald - Respirology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) frequently coexists with other conditions
often known as comorbidities. The prevalence of most of the common comorbid conditions …

[HTML][HTML] Avaliação da capacidade funcional dos idosos e fatores associados à incapacidade

BR Barbosa, JM Almeida, MR Barbosa… - Ciência & Saúde …, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a capacidade funcional e analisar as características
associadas à incapacidade dos idosos atendidos em uma Estratégia da Saúde da Família …

The role of diseases, risk factors and symptoms in the definition of multimorbidity–a systematic review

TG Willadsen, A Bebe… - … journal of primary …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Objective is to explore how multimorbidity is defined in the scientific literature, with a focus
on the roles of diseases, risk factors, and symptoms in the definitions. Design: Systematic …

The measurement of multiple chronic diseases—a systematic review on existing multimorbidity indices

C Diederichs, K Berger… - Journals of Gerontology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Background. Multimorbidity, defined as the coexistence of 2 or more chronic diseases, is a
common phenomenon especially in older people. Numerous efforts to establish a …

Multimorbidity in general practice: prevalence, incidence, and determinants of co-occurring chronic and recurrent diseases

M Van den Akker, F Buntinx, JFM Metsemakers… - Journal of clinical …, 1998 - Elsevier
Increasing numbers of people are found to have two or more diseases at the same time,
which is termed multimorbidity. We studied the prevalence, incidence, and determinants of …

Prevalence of multimorbidity among adults seen in family practice

M Fortin, G Bravo, C Hudon, A Vanasse… - The Annals of Family …, 2005 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE There are few valid data that describe the extent of multimorbidity in primary care
patients. The purpose of this study was to estimate its prevalence in family practice patients …

Reinterpreting comorbidity: A model-based approach to understanding and classifying psychopathology

RF Krueger, KE Markon - Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Comorbidity has presented a persistent puzzle for psychopathology research. We review
recent literature indicating that the puzzle of comorbidity is being solved by research fitting …

LEAP: learning to prescribe effective and safe treatment combinations for multimorbidity

Y Zhang, R Chen, J Tang, WF Stewart… - proceedings of the 23rd …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Managing patients with complex multimorbidity has long been recognized as a difficult
problem due to complex disease and medication dependencies and the potential risk of …