How to weight chronic diseases in multimorbidity indices? Development of a new method on the basis of individual data from five population-based studies

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 679-685

  Diederichs, Claudia P ^a   Wellmann, Jürgen ^a   Bartels, Dorothee B ^b,c   Ellert, Ute ^d   Hoffmann, Wolfgang ^e   Berger, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic diseases; Health status; Index; Multimorbidity; Pooled odds ratios; Weights

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; THYROID DISEASE;

AGED; ASTHMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84860232481     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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