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Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education: a cross-sectional study
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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.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2012-07-07. It has received 4839 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Comorbidity & Health services research.read more
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The gap in postoperative outcome between older and younger patients with stage I-III colorectal cancer has been bridged; results from the Netherlands cancer registry.
Nelleke P.M. Brouwer,Thea C. Heil,Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert,V.E.P.P. Lemmens,Harm J. T. Rutten,Johannes H. W. de Wilt,Felice N. van Erning +6 more
TL;DR: Differences in postoperative mortality between older and younger CRC patients decreased between 2005 and 2016, and one-year postoperative RS was almost equal for Older and younger patients in 2015-2016.
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The burden of comorbidities in pulmonary arterial hypertension
TL;DR: The comorbidities discussed in this review (systemic hypertension, obesity, sleep apnoea, clinical depression, obstructive airway disease, thyroid disease, diabetes, and ischaemic cardiovascular event) were chosen based on their prevalence in patients with idiopathic PAH in the REVEAL registry.
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Mapping of global scientific research in comorbidity and multimorbidity: A cross-sectional analysis.
Ferrán Catalá-López,Adolfo Alonso-Arroyo,Matthew J. Page,Brian Hutton,Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos,Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent +5 more
TL;DR: This study aimed to map global scientific research in comorbidity and multimorbidality to understand the maturity and growth of the area during the past decades, and is the first analysis of global scientificResearch inComorbidities and multi-bidity.
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Mental and physical health conditions in people with intellectual disabilities: Comparing local and national data
TL;DR: Further increased risk of mental disorders in an inner London borough compared to national data aligns with existing literature that highlights the negative impact of socio-economic deprivation on mental and physical health.
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Multimorbidity patterns and their relationship to mortality in the US older adult population.
D. Diane Zheng,David A. Loewenstein,Sharon L. Christ,Daniel J. Feaster,Byron L. Lam,Kathryn E. McCollister,Rosie E. Curiel-Cid,David J. Lee +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, a cross-sectional study with longitudinal mortality follow-up employed latent class analysis (LCA) to develop clinically meaningful subgroups of participants aged 50 and older with different combinations of 13 chronic conditions from the National Health Interview Survey 2002-2014.
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