Research on patients with multiple health conditions: different constructs, different views, one voice

Affiliations

¹ Health Services and Policy Research Group, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
³ Department of Family Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

Editorial

Jose M Valderas et al. J Comorb. 2011.

. 2011 Dec 27:1:1-3.

doi: 10.15256/joc.2011.1.11. eCollection 2011.

¹ Health Services and Policy Research Group, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
³ Department of Family Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: Comorbidity; multimorbidity; multiple health conditions.

Conflict of interest statement

None declared.

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