ABC of multimorbidity / [edited by] Stewart Mercer, Chris Salisbury, Martin Fortin. - Hoboken, West Sussex: John Wiley, 2014. - 50 p.: ill.; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing multimorbidity / Martin Fortin, Chris Salisbury, and Stewart Mercer -- How common is multimorbidity? / Marjan van den Akker and Christiane Muth -- How does multimorbidity affect patients? / Elizabeth A. Bayliss -- Effects of multimorbidity on health care resource use / Efrat Shadmi, Karen Kinder, and Jonathan P. Weiner -- Multimorbidity and the primary care clinic / Stewart Mercer and Chris Salisbury -- Multimorbidity and patient-centred care / Moira Stewart and Martin Fortin -- Multimorbidity and the health care electronic medical record / Amanda L. Terry and Sonny Cejic -- Multimorbidity and treatment burden / Katie I. Gallacher, Victor Montori, Carl R. May and Frances Mair -- Multimorbidity and mental health / Peter Bower, Peter Coventry and Linda Gask -- The impact of multi-morbidity on quality and safety of healthcare / Jose M. Valderas, Ignacio Ricci-Cabello, and Concepción Violán -- Implications of multimorbidity for health policy / Chris Salisbury and Martin Rowland -- Optimising outcomes in mutimorbidity / Stewart Mercer, Martin Fortin and Chris Salisbury.

9781118383889 (pbk.)

2014003059


Chronic Disease.
Comorbidity.
Primary Health Care.

RC537 / ABC 2014

616.85/27

WT 500