Open AccessTraining Doctors to Manage Patients with Multimorbidity: A Systematic Review
Author(s) -
Cliona Lewis,
Emma Wallace,
Lorraine Kyne,
Walter Cullen,
Susan M. Smith
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of comorbidity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2235-042X
DOI - 10.15256/joc.2016.6.87
Subject(s) - multimorbidity , medicine , training (meteorology) , family medicine , comorbidity , intensive care medicine , physics , meteorology
Patients with multimorbidity (two or more chronic conditions) are now the norm in clinical practice, and place an increasing burden on the healthcare system. Management of these patients is challenging, and requires doctors who are skilled in the complexity of multiple chronic diseases.
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