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ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2023

Defining and measuring complex multimorbidity: a critical analysis.

Sanghamitra Pati, Clare MacRae, David Henderson, David Weller, Bruce Guthrie, Stewart Mercer

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Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sanghamitra PatiProfessor of Public Health, Indian Council of Medical Research Regional Medical Research Centre Bhubaneswa, Odisha, India.ORCID 0000-0002-7717-5592
Clare MacRaeCentre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1007-683X
David HendersonCentre for Population Health Sciences. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4411-8352
David WellerCentre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8112-718X
Bruce GuthrieCentre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4191-4880
Stewart MercerProfessor of Primary Care and Multimorbidity, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1703-3664

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_MR/T03839X/1
6 · The paper itself

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PMID37500453
PMCPMC10405940

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