. 2015 Oct;61(10):918, e489-90.

Understanding multimorbidity in primary health care

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Affiliations

¹ Doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University in London, Ont.
² Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.
³ Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec and Research Director at the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.
⁴ Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences and a member of the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
⁵ Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research and is Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and is Director of the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health.

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Kathryn Nicholson et al. Can Fam Physician. 2015 Oct.

. 2015 Oct;61(10):918, e489-90.

¹ Doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University in London, Ont.
² Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.
³ Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec and Research Director at the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.
⁴ Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences and a member of the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
⁵ Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research and is Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and is Director of the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health.

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