Title |
Reducing complexity: a visualisation of multimorbidity by combining disease clusters and triads
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, December 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1285 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Ingmar Schäfer, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Hans-Otto Wagner, Gerhard Schön, Martin Scherer, Hendrik van den Bussche |
Abstract |
Multimorbidity is highly prevalent in the elderly and relates to many adverse outcomes, such as higher mortality, increased disability and functional decline. Many studies tried to reduce the heterogeneity of multimorbidity by identifying multimorbidity clusters or disease combinations, however, the internal structure of multimorbidity clusters and the linking between disease combinations and clusters are still unknown. The aim of this study was to depict which diseases were associated with each other on person-level within the clusters and which ones were responsible for overlapping multimorbidity clusters. |
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Netherlands | 2 | 50% |
Unknown | 2 | 50% |
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Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
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United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
United States | 2 | <1% |
Denmark | 1 | <1% |
France | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 194 | 97% |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 37 | 18% |
Researcher | 37 | 18% |
Student > Master | 25 | 12% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 6% |
Professor | 10 | 5% |
Other | 39 | 19% |
Unknown | 41 | 20% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 67 | 33% |
Social Sciences | 12 | 6% |
Psychology | 10 | 5% |
Computer Science | 10 | 5% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 4% |
Other | 36 | 18% |
Unknown | 57 | 28% |