Guidelines for people not for diseases: the challenges of applying UK clinical guidelines to people with multimorbidity | Zendy

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Guidelines for people not for diseases: the challenges of applying UK clinical guidelines to people with multimorbidity

Author(s) -

Lloyd D Hughes,

Marion E. T. McMurdo,

Bruce Guthrie

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afs100

Subject(s) - medicine , comorbidity , multimorbidity , nice , guideline , excellence , medline , disease , health care , intensive care medicine , family medicine , psychiatry , pathology , computer science , law , political science , economics , programming language , economic growth

currently one of the major challenges facing clinical guidelines is multimorbidity. Current guidelines are not designed to consider the cumulative impact of treatment recommendations on people with several conditions, nor to allow comparison of relative benefits or risks. This is despite the fact that multimorbidity is a common phenomenon.

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