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Multimorbidity: redesigning health care for people who use it

2012; Elsevier BV; Volume: 380; Issue: 9836 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0140-6736(12)60482-6

1474-547X

Chris Salisbury,

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Over the past decade, multimorbidity—the existence of several chronic health disorders in one individual—has generated increasing interest. In The Lancet, findings from Karen Barnett and colleagues' study1 add to the evidence that patients with multimorbidity are the norm rather than the exception.2,3 Management of patients with several chronic diseases is now the most important task facing health services in developed countries, which presents a fundamental challenge to the single-disease focus that pervades medicine.