Most had multiple chronic conditions — in particular, coronary-artery disease, asthma, and complex mental illness.
Patients are older, with more complex needs and often have multiple chronic conditions.
They are often at the end of their lives, facing frequent hospitalizations for multiple chronic conditions.
In our practice we look after many housebound patients in their 80s and 90s, who have multiple chronic conditions.
Elderly people with multiple chronic conditions have the greatest needs and are the biggest users of the NHS.
SDSU's team developed a patient-engagement score algorithm for people with multiple chronic conditions using pre-existing patient behavior data.
I recently started a full-time PhD investigating how people with multiple chronic conditions across the city of Glasgow access health and social care.
The health minister, Sussan Ley, says some patients with multiple chronic conditions such as osteoporosis and diabetes could save up to $400 a year on their medicine scripts.
Americans need access to internists and other primary care physicians to manage multiple chronic conditions as baby boomers gray and disease rates for obesity, diabetes and hypertension increase.
But about one-quarter of the older population has multiple chronic conditions and spends 80percentt of Medicare dollars, he added.
Mrs. Piccolo is being treated by Dr. Cynthia M. Boyd, a Johns Hopkins University geriatrician whose research focuses on patients with multiple chronic conditions.
