Multiple chronic conditions: patient characteristics and impacts on quality of life and health expenditures
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2005
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Walker, Agnes
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BACKGROUND: While analyses of health status often focus on a single disease, comprehensive studies of people with multiple chronic conditions – ie comorbidities - are relatively rare. This paper reports on a study of comorbidities carried out under an Australian Research Council grant. ... CONCLUSIONS: Improved chronic disease prevention - and treatment that slowed the progression of such diseases – have the potential to reduce the incidence and prevalence of comorbidities and thus lead to better quality of life and to lower health care expenditures
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chronic diseases, comorbidities, quality of life, health expenditures
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Health Services & Policy Research Conference, Canberra, 13-16 November 2005.
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