– a generally known phenomenon? This is probably because it is being referenced more and more in policy (and funding related) documents and this is because multimorbidity is identified as a cause of increased health care costs.
A few decades ago, chronic diseases began to assume importance as they became relatively more common when compared to acute illnesses and as infectious diseases have become more treatable. Co-morbidities then began to be mentioned in specialist clinics where it was noted that, for instance, patients with COPD might also have cardiac or peripheral vascular disease – and that these co-morbidities and their treatments might impact on the disease under care.
This was a rather specialist view. In the Geriatric
In
The American Geriatric Society has produced a handy Pocketcard summary of their guidelines.
In the UK, Multimorbidity guidelines have been produced
Minimally Disruptive Medicine: Is healthcare careful? Is it kind?
MedEdPurls has three posts on Teaching Multimorbidity:
http://mededpurls.com/blog/index.php/2016/10/31/teaching-multimorbidity-part-one/
http://mededpurls.com/blog/index.php/2016/11/05/teaching-multimorbidity-part-two/
http://mededpurls.com/blog/index.php/2016/11/13/teaching-multimorbidity-part-three/
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