Should we keep on measuring multimorbidity?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University (UG), UZ Gent 3K3 De Pintelaan, 185 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: Pauline.boeckxstaens@ugent.be.
² Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University (UG), UZ Gent 3K3 De Pintelaan, 185 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
³ Institut de Recherche Santé et Societé, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), à Clos Chapelle-aux-champs, 30 bte 30.15 - 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Public and Primary HealthCare, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Kapucijnenvoer 35 blok d, box 7001, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium.

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Pauline Boeckxstaens et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2016 Mar.

. 2016 Mar:71:113-4.

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.05.015. Epub 2015 May 14.

¹ Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University (UG), UZ Gent 3K3 De Pintelaan, 185 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: Pauline.boeckxstaens@ugent.be.
² Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University (UG), UZ Gent 3K3 De Pintelaan, 185 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
³ Institut de Recherche Santé et Societé, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), à Clos Chapelle-aux-champs, 30 bte 30.15 - 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Public and Primary HealthCare, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Kapucijnenvoer 35 blok d, box 7001, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium.

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Multimorbidity measures were poor predictors of adverse events in patients aged ≥80 years: a prospective cohort study.
Boeckxstaens P, Vaes B, Van Pottelbergh G, De Sutter A, Legrand D, Adriaensen W, Matheï C, Dalleur O, Degryse J. Boeckxstaens P, et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2015 Feb;68(2):220-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.08.010. Epub 2014 Dec 19. J Clin Epidemiol. 2015. PMID: 25533322
Comorbidity indices disillusion.
Bernardini B, Fracchia S. Bernardini B, et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2016 Mar;71:114-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.05.014. Epub 2015 May 15. J Clin Epidemiol. 2016. PMID: 26077791 No abstract available.