The prevalence of multimorbidity measured by linked healthcare data and its association with mortality in a large longitudinal cohort
Background Multimorbidity, the co-existence of two or more health conditions, is a growing challenge. It has been measured using health service administrative data via the emerging consensus measure by Barnett (containing 40 health conditions). However, this was developed using Scottish-specific pri...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Swansea University
2018-06-01
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Series: | International Journal of Population Data Science |
Online Access: | https://ijpds.org/article/view/490 |