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2020 Apr 10


BMC Med


18


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Characteristics, service use and mortality of clusters of multimorbid patients in England: a population-based study.

Authors

Zhu Y, Edwards D, Mant J, Payne RA, Kiddle S
BMC Med. 2020 Apr 10; 18(1):78.
PMID: 32272927.

Abstract

Multimorbidity is associated with mortality and service use, with specific types of multimorbidity having differential effects. Additionally, multimorbidity is often negatively associated with participation in research cohorts. Therefore, we set out to identify clusters of multimorbidity patients and how they are differentially associated with mortality and service use across age groups in a population-representative sample.