Comorbidity versus multimorbidity: Why it matters

Christopher Harrison¹, Martin Fortin², Marjan van den Akker^{3

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5}, Frances Mair⁶, Amaia Calderon-Larranaga⁷, Fiona Boland⁸, Emma Wallace⁸, Bhautesh Jani⁶, Susan Smith⁸

Affiliations

¹ Menzies Centre for Health Policy, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
² Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
³ Institute of General Practice, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine, School CAPHRI, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁵ Academic Centre for General Practice, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Belgium.
⁶ General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁷ Aging Research Centre, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁸ HRB Centre for Primary Care Research, Department of General Practice, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland.

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PMCID: PMC7930649
DOI: 10.1177/2633556521993993

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Comorbidity versus multimorbidity: Why it matters

Christopher Harrison et al. J Multimorb Comorb. 2021.

. 2021 Mar 2:11:2633556521993993.

doi: 10.1177/2633556521993993. eCollection 2021 Jan-Dec.

Authors

Christopher Harrison¹, Martin Fortin², Marjan van den Akker^{3

4

5}, Frances Mair⁶, Amaia Calderon-Larranaga⁷, Fiona Boland⁸, Emma Wallace⁸, Bhautesh Jani⁶, Susan Smith⁸

Affiliations

¹ Menzies Centre for Health Policy, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
² Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
³ Institute of General Practice, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine, School CAPHRI, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁵ Academic Centre for General Practice, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Belgium.
⁶ General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁷ Aging Research Centre, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁸ HRB Centre for Primary Care Research, Department of General Practice, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland.

PMID: 33718251
PMCID: PMC7930649
DOI: 10.1177/2633556521993993

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