Multimorbidity and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a nationally representative population sample: implications of count versus cluster method for defining multimorbidity on HRQoL

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• 作者：Lili Wang ; Andrew J Palmer ; Fiona Cocker…
• 关键词：Multimorbidity ; Definition ; AQoL ; 4D ; Hierarchical cluster ; Health ; related Quality of Life (HRQoL)
• 刊名：Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：458KB
• 刊物主题：Quality of Life Research; Quality of Life Research;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1477-7525
• 卷排序：15

文摘

BackgroundNo universally accepted definition of multimorbidity (MM) exists, and implications of different definitions have not been explored. This study examined the performance of the count and cluster definitions of multimorbidity on the sociodemographic profile and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a general population.