The increasing burden and complexity of multimorbidity

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Koné Pefoyo, Anna J ^a,b,c   Bronskill, Susan E ^b,d   Gruneir, Andrea ^b,d,e,f   Calzavara, Andrew ^d   Thavorn, Kednapa ^d,g,h   Petrosyan, Yelena ^b   Maxwell, Colleen J ^d,i   Bai, Yuqing ^b,d   Wodchis, Walter P ^b,d,j  

^a CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^e WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^j TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Administrative health data; Age; Chronic conditions; Disease clusters; Multimorbidity; Ontario; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; ONTARIO; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84989782423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1733-2     Document Type: Article

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