Overcoming cut-off restrictions in multimorbidity prevalence estimates

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Holzer, Barbara M ^a,c   Siebenhuener, Klarissa ^a,c   Bopp, Matthias ^b,c   Minder, Christoph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Definition; Multimorbidity; Multiple chronic conditions; Operationalization; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84906537589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-780     Document Type: Article

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