The influence of age, gender and socio-economic status on multimorbidity patterns in primary care. first results from the multicare cohort study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Schäfer, Ingmar ^a   Hansen, Heike ^a   Schön, Gerhard ^a   Höfels, Susanne ^b   Altiner, Attila ^c   Dahlhaus, Anne ^d   Gensichen, Jochen ^e   Riedel Heller, Steffi ^f   Weyerer, Siegfried ^g   Blank, Wolfgang A ^h   König, Hans Helmut ^a   Von Dem Knesebeck, Olaf ^a   Wegscheider, Karl ^a   Scherer, Martin ^a   Van Den Bussche, Hendrik ^a   Wiese, Birgitt ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^g CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^h TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁱ HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

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EID: 84860734668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-89     Document Type: Article

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