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- Learn more about the psychological distress of patients with severe multimorbidity.
Thank's for this useful and well structured research which indicates that the presence of psychological distress increased with the severity of multimorbidity. It would be interesting to pursue this study by identifying the nature and seriousness of the psychological distress of these patients and some suggestions of interventions.
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Fortin and colleagues have shown—quite elegantly—that, compared to a count of diseases, the CIRS accounted for more variance in psychological distress among patients with multimorbidity.(1) The study also showed the results to be uncertain for the count of diseases. The values in the confidence interval for the count of diseases go from a 3% reduction to a 29% increase in the odds associated with an increase of one disea...
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Fortin and colleagues have presented a very relevant and well performed study. It shows the importance of multimorbidity in terms of psychological distress. Furthermore, it once more shows that a simple count of diseases as a measure of multimorbidity is not specific enough to point out certain relations. Accounting for disease severity is one possible way to overcome this problem.
We have recently studied psych...
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Congratulations to Fortin M. et al for an excellent paper with sophisticated analyses. Clarifying the association between multimorbidity and psychological distress is important for both primary care clinical practice and primary care health services research.
Efforts to reform primary care in Canada include the attachment of new allied health professionals to existing family physician practices at no cost to...
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