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Defining Multimorbidity in Older Surgical Patients.

Silber JH, Reiter JG, Rosenbaum PR, Zhao Q, Small DS, Niknam BA, Hill AS, Hochman LL, Kelz RR, Fleisher LA

Published

July 31st, 2018

Appears In

Medical Care

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Abstract

There are numerous definitions of multimorbidity (MM). None systematically examines specific comorbidity combinations accounting for multiple testing when exploring large datasets.

This study will develop and validate a list of all single, double, and triple comorbidity combinations, with each individual qualifying comorbidity set (QCS) more than doubling the odds of mortality versus its reference population. Patients with at least 1 QCS were defined as having MM.

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