Multimorbidity - Not just an older person's issue. Results from an Australian biomedical study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Taylor, Anne W ^a,b   Price, Kay ^c   Gill, Tiffany K ^a,b   Adams, Robert ^b   Pilkington, Rhiannon ^a   Carrangis, Natalie ^d   Shi, Zumin ^a,b   Wilson, David ^b  

^a Population Research and Outcome Studies Unit   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d Health Promotion Branch   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78549289230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-718     Document Type: Article

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