ArticleBMC family practice2015
What research agenda could be generated from the European General Practice Research Network concept of Multimorbidity in Family Practice?
Article in BMC family practice, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04386135 (DESVELA Cohort. Analysis of the Role of Personal Skills as Determinants of Incidence of Morbidity, Lifestyles, Quality of Life, Use of Services and Mortality.), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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DESVELA Cohort. Analysis of the Role of Personal Skills as Determinants of Incidence of Morbidity, Lifestyles, Quality of Life, Use of Services and Mortality.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Global evidence on the effectiveness of task-shifting and task-sharing strategies for managing individuals with multimorbidity: systematic review and meta-analysis.Family medicine and community health · 2025Pooled it
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- The Cantabria Cohort, a protocol for a population-based cohort in northern Spain.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Caring for high-need patients.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Role of personal aptitudes as determinants of incident morbidity, lifestyles, quality of life, use of health services, and mortality (DESVELA cohort): quantitative study protocol for a prospective cohort study in a hybrid analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Different definitions of multimorbidity and their effect on prevalence rates: a retrospective study in German general practices.Primary health care research & development · 2022Observational
- Associations between complex multimorbidity, activities of daily living and mortality among older Norwegians. A prospective cohort study: the HUNT Study, Norway.BMC geriatrics · 2020Article
- Predicting Incident Multimorbidity.Annals of family medicine · 2018Article
- Cohort Profile: The Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases and Multimorbidity. The EpiChron Cohort Study.International journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundMultimorbidity is an intuitively appealing, yet challenging, concept for Family Medicine (FM). An EGPRN working group has published a comprehensive definition of the concept based on a systematic review of the literature which is closely linked to patient complexity and to the biopsychosocial model. This concept was identified by European Family Physicians (FPs) throughout Europe using 13 qualitative surveys. To further our understanding of the issues around multimorbidity, we needed to do innovative research to clarify this concept. The research question for this survey was: what research agenda could be generated for Family Medicine from the EGPRN concept of Multimorbidity?
methodsNominal group design with a purposive panel of experts in the field of multimorbidity. The nominal group worked through four phases: ideas generation phase, ideas recording phase, evaluation and analysis phase and a prioritization phase.
resultsFifteen international experts participated. A research agenda was established, featuring 6 topics and 11 themes with their corresponding study designs. The highest priorities were given to the following topics: measuring multimorbidity and the impact of multimorbidity. In addition the experts stressed that the concept should be simplified. This would be best achieved by working in reverse: starting with the outcomes and working back to find the useful variables within the concept.
conclusionThe highest priority for future research on multimorbidity should be given to measuring multimorbidity and to simplifying the EGPRN model, using a pragmatic approach to determine the useful variables within the concept from its outcomes.
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