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Bruce Guthrie

Researcher at University of Edinburgh

Publications -  277
Citations -  19222

Bruce Guthrie is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Health care. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 233 publications receiving 15229 citations. Previous affiliations of Bruce Guthrie include University of Oxford & University of California, San Francisco.

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Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education: a cross-sectional study

TL;DR: The findings challenge the single-disease framework by which most health care, medical research, and medical education is configured, and a complementary strategy is needed, supporting generalist clinicians to provide personalised, comprehensive continuity of care, especially in socioeconomically deprived areas.
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Global, regional, and national estimates of the population at increased risk of severe COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions in 2020: a modelling study.

TL;DR: These estimates provide a starting point for considering the number of individuals that might need to be shielded or vaccinated as the global pandemic unfolds, and focus on underlying conditions rather than other risk factors such as ethnicity, socioeconomic deprivation, and obesity.
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The rising tide of polypharmacy and drug-drug interactions: population database analysis 1995–2010

TL;DR: In this paper, a repeated cross-sectional analysis of community-dispensed prescribing data for all 310,000 adults resident in the Tayside region of Scotland in 1995 and 2010 was carried out.
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Managing patients with multimorbidity in primary care

TL;DR: Multimorbidity, commonly defined as the presence of two or more chronic medical conditions in an individual, is associated with decreased quality of life, functional decline, and increased healthcare utilisation, including emergency admissions, particularly with higher numbers of coexisting conditions.