Symptom burden in community-dwelling older people with multimorbidity: A cross-sectional study

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Eckerblad, Jeanette ^a   Theander, Kersti ^b   Ekdahl, Anne ^a,c   Unosson, Mitra ^a   Wirehn, Ann Britt ^a   Milberg, Anna ^a   Krevers, Barbro ^a   Jaarsma, Tiny ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Older people; Symptom assessment

Indexed keywords

AGED; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84924150896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-15-1     Document Type: Article

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