Quality of care for patients with multiple chronic conditions: the role of comorbidity interrelatedness

DM Zulman, SM Asch, SB Martins, EA Kerr… - Journal of general …, 2014 - Springer
Multimorbidity—the presence of multiple chronic conditions in a patient—has a profound
impact on health, health care utilization, and associated costs. Definitions of multimorbidity …

Patterns of multimorbid health conditions: a systematic review of analytical methods and comparison analysis

SK Ng, R Tawiah, M Sawyer… - International journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background The latest review of studies on multimorbidity patterns showed high
heterogeneity in the methodology for identifying groups of multimorbid conditions. However …

Syndemics and health disparities: a methodological note

AC Tsai, AS Venkataramani - AIDS and Behavior, 2016 - Springer
In the theory of syndemics, diseases are hypothesized to co-occur in particular temporal or
geographical contexts due to harmful social conditions (disease concentration) and to …

Problems in determining occurrence rates of multimorbidity

M van den Akker, F Buntinx, S Roos… - Journal of clinical …, 2001 - Elsevier
This article describes methodological decisions that have to be made when studying
multiple pathology and presents appropriate analytical techniques. The main question of this …

Integrative review of the social determinants of health in older adults with multimorbidity

M Northwood, J Ploeg, M Markle‐Reid… - Journal of Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To examine how the social determinants of health have been considered in
conceptualizations of multimorbidity in older adults in the literature and to identify …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity among elderly people in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

MA Khanam, PK Streatfield, ZN Kabir… - Journal of health …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Data on multimorbidity among the elderly people in Bangladesh are lacking. This paper
reports the prevalence and distribution patterns of multimorbidity among the elderly people …

[PDF][PDF] Comorbidity and multimorbidity in medicine today: challenges and opportunities for bringing separated branches of medicine closer to each other

M Jakovljević, L Ostojić - Psychiatria Danubina, 2013 - hrcak.srce.hr
COMORBIDITY AND MULTIMORBIDITY IN MEDICINE TODAY: CHALLENGES AND
OPPORTUNITIES FOR BRINGING SEPARATED BRANCHES OF MEDICINE CLOSE Page 1 18 …

The impact of frailty on healthcare utilisation in Ireland: evidence from the Irish longitudinal study on ageing

L Roe, C Normand, MA Wren, J Browne… - BMC geriatrics, 2017 - Springer
Introduction To examine the impact of frailty on medical and social care utilisation among the
Irish community-dwelling older population to inform strategies of integrated care for older …

The complex patient: a concept clarification

E Manning, M Gagnon - Nursing & health sciences, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decade, the concept of the “complex patient” has not only been more widely
used in multidisciplinary healthcare teams and across various healthcare disciplines, but it …

'Multimorbidity'as the manifestation of network disturbances

JP Sturmberg, JM Bennett, CM Martin… - Journal of evaluation …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We argue that 'multimorbidity'is the manifestation of interconnected physiological network
processes within an individual in his or her socio‐cultural environment. Networks include …