Multimorbidity is becoming an increasing problem with more patients having two or more long-term conditions. This is putting an additional burden on healthcare resources while having a detrimental effect on the quality of patients’ lives. Clinicians need to consider how they can treat this cohort of patients better. This article will discuss the issues and challenges of dealing with multimorbidity and suggest how these patients can best be managed.
Primary Health Care. doi: 10.7748/phc.2018.e1386
CitationArcher L (2018) Managing patients with multimorbidity. Primary Health Care. doi: 10.7748/phc.2018.e1386
Peer reviewThis article has been subject to external double-blind review and checked for plagiarism using automated software
Correspondence Conflict of interestNone declared
Published online: 19 June 2018
or
Alternatively, you can purchase access to this article for the next seven days. Buy now
Are you a student? Our student subscription has content especially for you.
Find out more