Background Primary care increasingly deals with patients with multimorbidity, but relevant
evidence-based interventions are scarce. Knowledge about multimorbidity over time is …

Patient-centered care (PCC) has been described as a vague concept, which yields an
inconsistent operationalization and implementation of this approach to care. This integrative …

Background Lifestyle factors have been associated mostly with individual chronic diseases.
We investigated the relationship between lifestyle factors (individual and combined) and the …

Background: Various data sources may be used to document the presence of chronic
medical conditions. This study examined the agreement between self-reported and health …

Background The increasing number of patients with chronic diseases represents a
challenge for health care systems. The Chronic Care Model suggests a multi-component …

Background Polypharmacy carries the risk of adverse events, especially in people with
multimorbidity. Objective To investigate the prevalence of polypharmacy in community …

Background Chronic diseases represent a major challenge for health care and social
services. A number of people with chronic diseases require more services due to …

Background Settings affect estimation of multimorbidity prevalence. Multimorbidity
prevalence was reported to be substantially higher among family practice-based patients …

Background Patient‐centered care (PCC) is a vaguely defined element of high‐quality care,
which precludes its consistent and precise operationalization. A conceptualization of PCC …

Background: Chronic disease prevention and management programs are usually single-
disease oriented. Our objective was to evaluate an intervention that targeted multiple …