Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Current Issue
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Access
    • Multimedia
    • Podcast
    • Collections
    • Past Issues
    • Articles by Subject
    • Articles by Type
    • Supplements
    • Plain Language Summaries
    • Calls for Papers
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Job Seekers
    • Media
  • About
    • Annals of Family Medicine
    • Editorial Staff & Boards
    • Sponsoring Organizations
    • Copyrights & Permissions
    • Announcements
  • Engage
    • Engage
    • e-Letters (Comments)
    • Subscribe
    • Podcast
    • E-mail Alerts
    • Journal Club
    • RSS
    • Annals Forum (Archive)
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
  • Careers

User menu

  • My alerts

Search

  • Advanced search
Annals of Family Medicine
  • My alerts
Annals of Family Medicine

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Current Issue
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Access
    • Multimedia
    • Podcast
    • Collections
    • Past Issues
    • Articles by Subject
    • Articles by Type
    • Supplements
    • Plain Language Summaries
    • Calls for Papers
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Job Seekers
    • Media
  • About
    • Annals of Family Medicine
    • Editorial Staff & Boards
    • Sponsoring Organizations
    • Copyrights & Permissions
    • Announcements
  • Engage
    • Engage
    • e-Letters (Comments)
    • Subscribe
    • Podcast
    • E-mail Alerts
    • Journal Club
    • RSS
    • Annals Forum (Archive)
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
  • Careers
  • Follow annalsfm on Twitter
  • Visit annalsfm on Facebook
Review ArticleSystematic Review

Measures of Multimorbidity and Morbidity Burden for Use in Primary Care and Community Settings: A Systematic Review and Guide

Alyson L. Huntley, Rachel Johnson, Sarah Purdy, Jose M. Valderas and Chris Salisbury
The Annals of Family Medicine March 2012, 10 (2) 134-141; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1363
Alyson L. Huntley
BSc, PhD
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Rachel Johnson
MRCGP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Sarah Purdy
MPH, MD, FRCGP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Jose M. Valderas
MD, PhD, MPH
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Chris Salisbury
MSc, MD, FRCGP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: c.salisbury@bristol.ac.uk
  • Article
  • Figures & Data
  • eLetters
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

Article Information

vol. 10 no. 2 134-141
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1363
PubMed 
22412005

Published By 
The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication June 8, 2011
  • Revision received November 10, 2011
  • Accepted for publication November 30, 2011
  • Published online March 12, 2012.

Copyright & Usage 
© 2012 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.

Author Information

  1. Alyson L. Huntley, BSc, PhD1,
  2. Rachel Johnson, MRCGP1,
  3. Sarah Purdy, MPH, MD, FRCGP1,
  4. Jose M. Valderas, MD, PhD, MPH2 and
  5. Chris Salisbury, MSc, MD, FRCGP1⇓
  1. 1Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, School of Social and Community Medicine, Bristol University, Bristol, England
  2. 2Health Services and Policy Research Group, Department of Primary Health Care, Oxford, England
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Chris Salisbury, MSc, MD, FRCGP, Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, School of Social and Community Medicine, Canynge Hall, Bristol University, Bristol, BS8 2PS, England, c.salisbury{at}bristol.ac.uk

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Article usage

Article usage: March 2012 to April 2025

AbstractFullPdf
Mar 2012732551291
Apr 2012680276192
May 2012371169140
Jun 2012235133111
Jul 2012212194154
Aug 2012161143142
Sep 201216211293
Oct 2012119140100
Nov 2012117207125
Dec 2012160168112
Jan 2013220243126
Feb 2013135238131
Mar 2013187256137
Apr 201313721192
May 2013183211109
Jun 201314613092
Jul 2013817772
Aug 2013917360
Sep 2013787468
Oct 20131246894
Nov 2013978862
Dec 20137113566
Jan 201491125103
Feb 201411311484
Mar 201411012481
Apr 20145715379
May 201491115100
Jun 201412213265
Jul 20149012159
Aug 20148713373
Sep 20148918790
Oct 20147716052
Nov 20141016146
Dec 2014695649
Jan 201511813544
Feb 20151025146
Mar 201512121873
Apr 20159210552
May 20159410465
Jun 20158413756
Jul 20155914861
Aug 20157310657
Sep 20156411755
Oct 20158516765
Nov 20158112759
Dec 20151189836
Jan 201611811048
Feb 20166811046
Mar 20169917257
Apr 2016838647
May 20161117247
Jun 20161228229
Jul 2016956836
Aug 201612211240
Sep 20161006534
Oct 20169932656
Nov 2016935439
Dec 2016825645
Jan 2017816356
Feb 201710113169
Mar 201711145468
Apr 201712858946
May 201725170849
Jun 20179944322
Jul 20176532423
Aug 201712219942
Sep 20177412233
Oct 20177617242
Nov 20178815322
Dec 20175912813
Jan 20187614830
Feb 20189212832
Mar 20188013138
Apr 2018858847
May 20188315029
Jun 20186719440
Jul 20188112438
Aug 20181157938
Sep 2018805536
Oct 20181146158
Nov 2018926935
Dec 2018964028
Jan 20191075447
Feb 2019783950
Mar 2019976248
Apr 2019575429
May 2019934652
Jun 2019686150
Jul 20191147167
Aug 20191059473
Sep 20191018563
Oct 201911325461
Nov 201910615274
Dec 2019947256
Jan 20201329371
Feb 20201086466
Mar 2020797345
Apr 20201284943
May 20204810940
Jun 20202513761
Jul 2020229840
Aug 20203014080
Sep 202042125108
Oct 20203711478
Nov 202035129125
Dec 202028117100
Jan 2021468665
Feb 20214510055
Mar 20214712065
Apr 20214112458
May 20213616654
Jun 20214513378
Jul 2021357946
Aug 2021277951
Sep 20214211767
Oct 20213612299
Nov 202157128129
Dec 20213212568
Jan 20223211989
Feb 20222512693
Mar 202231127108
Apr 2022337757
May 20222922782
Jun 202230343105
Jul 2022177552
Aug 2022268957
Sep 2022269350
Oct 2022278649
Nov 2022499984
Dec 20222813938
Jan 20233414851
Feb 2023317352
Mar 2023309046
Apr 2023208860
May 2023276450
Jun 2023277736
Jul 2023199246
Aug 2023217938
Sep 20231413144
Oct 20232013931
Nov 20233822462
Dec 20238147980
Jan 202481172290
Feb 20245112454
Mar 20243515260
Apr 20244349452
May 20243441839
Jun 2024177521
Jul 2024128522
Aug 2024108716
Sep 2024148020
Oct 2024164425
Nov 2024168326
Dec 2024175821
Jan 2025179650
Feb 2025710227
Mar 20251218233
Apr 20251014237
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

The Annals of Family Medicine: 10 (2)
The Annals of Family Medicine: 10 (2)
Vol. 10, Issue 2
March/April 2012
  • Table of Contents
  • Index by author
  • The Issue in Brief
Print
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Annals of Family Medicine.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Measures of Multimorbidity and Morbidity Burden for Use in Primary Care and Community Settings: A Systematic Review and Guide
(Your Name) has sent you a message from Annals of Family Medicine
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the Annals of Family Medicine web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
1 + 3 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.
Citation Tools
Measures of Multimorbidity and Morbidity Burden for Use in Primary Care and Community Settings: A Systematic Review and Guide
Alyson L. Huntley, Rachel Johnson, Sarah Purdy, Jose M. Valderas, Chris Salisbury
The Annals of Family Medicine Mar 2012, 10 (2) 134-141; DOI: 10.1370/afm.1363

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Get Permissions
Share
Measures of Multimorbidity and Morbidity Burden for Use in Primary Care and Community Settings: A Systematic Review and Guide
Alyson L. Huntley, Rachel Johnson, Sarah Purdy, Jose M. Valderas, Chris Salisbury
The Annals of Family Medicine Mar 2012, 10 (2) 134-141; DOI: 10.1370/afm.1363
Twitter logo Facebook logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Jump to section

  • Article
    • Abstract
    • INTRODUCTION
    • METHODS
    • RESULTS
    • DISCUSSION
    • Footnotes
    • References
  • Figures & Data
  • eLetters
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • PubMed
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • Impact of multimorbidity and complex multimorbidity on healthcare utilisation in older Australian adults aged 45 years or more: a large population-based cross-sectional data linkage study
  • Treatment burden in multiple long-term conditions: a mixed-methods study protocol
  • Ethnic differences in early onset multimorbidity and associations with health service use, long-term prescribing, years of life lost, and mortality: an observational study using person-level clustering in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink
  • Multimorbidity and its associated factors in Indonesia through universal health coverage scheme: A cross-sectional study based on national claims data
  • Measuring multimorbidity in research: Delphi consensus study
  • Impact of multimorbidity and complex multimorbidity on mortality among older Australians aged 45 years and over: a large population-based record linkage study
  • Variation in the estimated prevalence of multimorbidity: systematic review and meta-analysis of 193 international studies
  • Health conditions and the risk of home injury in French adults: results from a prospective study of the MAVIE cohort
  • Multimorbidity, psychoactive substance use and psychological distress among acute medically ill patients: a cross-sectional study
  • Multimorbidity Burden in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Population-based Cohort Study
  • Magnitude, pattern and correlates of multimorbidity among patients attending chronic outpatient medical care in Bahir Dar, northwest Ethiopia: the application of latent class analysis model
  • Older People With Type 2 Diabetes-Individualising Management With a Specialised Community Team (OPTIMISE): Perspectives of Participants on Care
  • Online and telephone access to general practice: a cross-sectional patient survey
  • Risk of all-cause mortality associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the role of healthy ageing trajectories: a population-based study of middle-aged and older adults
  • Prevalence, pattern and determinants of chronic disease multimorbidity in Nepal: secondary analysis of a national survey
  • Comorbidity accounts for severe COVID-19 risk, but how do we measure it? Retrospective assessment of the performance of three measures of comorbidity using 4,607 hospitalizations
  • Clustering of comorbidities
  • Development and performance of a population-based risk stratification model for COVID-19
  • Systematic review on the instruments used for measuring the association of the level of multimorbidity and clinically important outcomes
  • Retrospective cohort study to investigate the 10-year trajectories of disease patterns in patients with hypertension and/or diabetes mellitus on subsequent cardiovascular outcomes and health service utilisation: a study protocol
  • Socioeconomic inequalities in prevalence and development of multimorbidity across adulthood: findings from the MRC 1946 National Survey of Health & Development
  • Prevalence of multimorbidity in South Africa: a systematic review protocol
  • Health conditions and the risk of home injury in French adults: Results from a prospective study of the MAVIE cohort
  • Patient Interest in Video Integration for After-Hours Telemedicine
  • Development and internal validation of a multimorbidity index that predicts healthcare utilisation using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
  • Measuring multimorbidity beyond counting diseases: systematic review of community and population studies and guide to index choice
  • Physical frailty and decline in general and specific cognitive abilities: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936
  • Journey to multimorbidity: longitudinal analysis exploring cardiovascular risk factors and sociodemographic determinants in an urban setting
  • Cohort Profile: Extended Cohort for E-health, Environment and DNA (EXCEED)
  • Existing comorbidities in people with osteoarthritis: a retrospective analysis of a population-based cohort in Alberta, Canada
  • Multimorbidity of chronic non-communicable diseases and its models of care in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review protocol
  • Heart sounds: a pilot randomised trial to determine the feasibility and acceptability of audio recordings to improve discharge communication for cardiology inpatients protocol
  • Increasing age- and gender-specific burden and complexity of multimorbidity in Taiwan, 2003-2013: a cross-sectional study based on nationwide claims data
  • Impact of educational attainment on the association between social class at birth and multimorbidity in middle age in the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study
  • Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people in primary care and its association with hospital admission: longitudinal study
  • Functional decline and associated factors in patients with multimorbidity at 8 months of follow-up in primary care: the functionality in pluripathological patients (FUNCIPLUR) longitudinal descriptive study
  • Person-level changes in oxycodone use after the introduction of a tamper-resistant formulation in Australia
  • Healthcare use for children with complex needs: using routine health data linked to a multiethnic, ongoing birth cohort
  • Association between perceived stress, multimorbidity and primary care health services: a Danish population-based cohort study
  • Effectiveness of a complex intervention on Prioritising Multimedication in Multimorbidity (PRIMUM) in primary care: results of a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial
  • Relationship of Opioid Prescriptions to Physical Therapy Referral and Participation for Medicaid Patients with New-Onset Low Back Pain
  • Contextual and individual inequalities of multimorbidity in Brazilian adults: a cross-sectional national-based study
  • Congruence of Patient Self-Rating of Health with Family Physician Ratings
  • Burden of multimorbidity in relation to age, gender and immigrant status: a cross-sectional study based on administrative data
  • Comparison of count-based multimorbidity measures in predicting emergency admission and functional decline in older community-dwelling adults: a prospective cohort study
  • Effectiveness of multidisciplinary team case management: difference-in-differences analysis
  • Impact of Case Mix Severity on Quality Improvement in a Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) in the Maryland Multi-Payor Program
  • Multimorbidity in primary care: protocol of a national cross-sectional study in Switzerland
  • Prevalence and outcomes of multimorbidity in South Asia: a systematic review
  • Prevalence of multimorbidity in the adult population attending primary care in Portugal: a cross-sectional study
  • Primary Care Physician Insights Into a Typology of the Complex Patient in Primary Care
  • A Population-Based Study Evaluating Family Physicians' HIV Experience and Care of People Living With HIV in Ontario
  • A population-based study comparing patterns of care delivery on the quality of care for persons living with HIV in Ontario
  • Panel Workload Assessment in US Primary Care: Accounting for Non-Face-to-Face Panel Management Activities
  • Evidence based medicine: a movement in crisis?
  • Abnormal platelet count is an independent predictor of mortality in the elderly and is influenced by ethnicity
  • Multimorbidity, disability, and mortality in community-dwelling older adults
  • Multimorbidity in Patients Attending 2 Australian Primary Care Practices
  • GPs' perspectives on the management of patients with multimorbidity: systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research
  • The Prevalence of Chronic Diseases and Multimorbidity in Primary Care Practice: A PPRNet Report
  • Adverse events recorded in English primary care: observational study using the General Practice Research Database
  • The effect of multiple chronic conditions on self-rated health, disability and quality of life among the older populations of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: a comparison of two nationally representative cross-sectional surveys
  • Aspects of Patient and Clinician Language Predict Adherence to Antidepressant Medication
  • Binocular Vision and Eye Movement Disorders in Older Adults
  • In This Issue: Assessing and Acting on Complexity
  • Toward a More Cogent Approach to the Challenges of Multimorbidity
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

  • Chest Pain in Primary Care: A Systematic Review of Risk Stratification Tools to Rule Out Acute Coronary Syndrome
  • Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir Regimen for Mild/Moderately Severe COVID-19: A Rapid Review With Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis
  • Clinically Important Benefits and Harms of Monoclonal Antibodies Targeting Amyloid for the Treatment of Alzheimer Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Show more Systematic Review

Similar Articles

Subjects

  • Domains of illness & health:
    • Chronic illness
  • Methods:
    • Quantitative methods
  • Other topics:
    • Multimorbidity

Content

  • Current Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Early Access
  • Plain-Language Summaries
  • Multimedia
  • Podcast
  • Articles by Type
  • Articles by Subject
  • Supplements
  • Calls for Papers

Info for

  • Authors
  • Reviewers
  • Job Seekers
  • Media

Engage

  • E-mail Alerts
  • e-Letters (Comments)
  • RSS
  • Journal Club
  • Submit a Manuscript
  • Subscribe
  • Family Medicine Careers

About

  • About Us
  • Editorial Board & Staff
  • Sponsoring Organizations
  • Copyrights & Permissions
  • Contact Us
  • eLetter/Comments Policy

© 2025 Annals of Family Medicine