The role of diseases, risk factors and symptoms in the definition of multimorbidity – a systematic review

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 112-121

  Willadsen, Tora Grauers ^a,b   Bebe, Anna ^a,b   Køster Rasmussen, Rasmus ^a   Jarbøl, Dorte Ejg ^c   Guassora, Ann Dorrit ^a   Waldorff, Frans Boch ^a,c   Reventlow, Susanne ^a,b   Olivarius, Niels de Fine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b The Lolland Falster Population Study ^*  (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Definition; Denmark; diseases; general practice; multimorbidity; primary care; risk factors; symptoms

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; RISK FACTOR;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84975263599     PISSN: 02813432     EISSN: 15027724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02813432.2016.1153242     Document Type: Article

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