Comorbidity and multimorbidity indexes in the elderly patients;Índices de comorbilidad y multimorbilidad en el paciente anciano

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 441-446

  Martínez Velilla, Nicolás Ignacio ^a   Gaminde Inda, Idoia De ^b  

^a Universidad Pública de Navarra   (Spain)

^b Servicio de Docencia y Desarrollo Sanitarios   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Chronic disease; Comorbidity; Multimorbidity; Older people

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST;

EID: 79954422284     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2010.01.018     Document Type: Review

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