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Interventions for improving outcomes in patients with multimorbidity in primary care and community settings.
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SUBMITTER: Smith SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8092473 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Interventions for improving outcomes in patients with multimorbidity in primary care and community settings.
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 20210115
<h4>Background</h4>Many people with chronic disease have more than one chronic condition, which is referred to as multimorbidity. The term comorbidity is also used but this is now taken to mean that there is a defined index condition with other linked conditions, for example diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It is also used when there are combinations of defined conditions that commonly co-exist, for example diabetes and depression. While this is not a new phenomenon, there is greater recogni ...[more]