20-year trends in multimorbidity by race/ethnicity among hospitalized patient populations in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The challenges presented by multimorbidity continue to rise in the United States. Little is known about how the relative contribution of individual chronic conditions to multimorbidity has changed over time, and how this varies by race/ethnicity. The objective of this study was to describe trends in multimorbidity by race/ethnicity, as well as to determine the differential contribution of individual chronic conditions to multimorbidity in hospitalized populations over a 20-year period within the United States.

Methods

This is a serial cross-sectional study using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) from 1993 to 2012. We identified all hospitalized patients aged ≥ 18 years old with available data on race/ethnicity. Multimorbidity was defined as the presence of 3 o

SUBMITTER: Mohamud MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10367428 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature