Multiple chronic conditions and life expectancy: A life table analysis

Medical Care

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 688-694

  Dugoff, Eva H ^a   Canudas Romo, Vladimir ^a,b   Buttorff, Christine ^a   Leff, Bruce ^a,c,d   Anderson, Gerard F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic illness; life expectancy; multimorbidity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIPLE CHRONIC CONDITION; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904506551     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000166     Document Type: Article

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