{"id":1318,"date":"2016-06-27T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T19:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2016-06-27T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T19:50:56","slug":"prevalence-of-multimorbidity-in-the-general-population-and-in-primary-care-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of multimorbidity in the general population and in primary care practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\">Tweet<\/a> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">By Martin Fortin<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Martin-Fortin-225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1319\" title=\"Martin Fortin 2\" src=\"https:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Martin-Fortin-225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Martin-Fortin-225.jpg 687w, https:\/\/crmcspl-blog.recherche.usherbrooke.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Martin-Fortin-225-300x58.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">It is known that settings affect estimation of the prevalence of multimorbidity. In a recently published paper\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s13104-016-2121-4\" target=\"_blank\"> [1]<\/a>, we have compared estimates of the prevalence of multimorbidity in the general population and in primary care clinical practices.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">The new aspect of this recent study was that prevalence in both settings was measured simultaneously, in the same region, and with the same methods. This way, we eliminated methodological limitations found in previous studies that prevented to conclude definitively the extent to which prevalence estimates differ in these two study populations <a href=\"http:\/\/bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/1472-6963-10-111\" target=\"_blank\">[2]<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Also, we explored the effect of using different operational definitions of multimorbidity on the differences of prevalence observed between the two sampled populations.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">We concluded that there is a difference of about 10% in prevalence estimates of multimorbidity between samples from the general population and primary care clinical practices, with a higher prevalence in the latter setting. The difference of the prevalence between the two settings was not affected by the use of different operational definitions of multimorbidity.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>1.- Mokraoui NM, Haggerty J, Almirall J, Fortin M. Prevalence of self-reported multimorbidity in the general population and in primary care practices: a cross-sectional study. BMC Res Notes. 2016;9:314.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">2.- Fortin M, Hudon C, Haggerty J, van den Akker M, Almirall J. Prevalence estimates of multimorbidity: a comparative study of two sources. BMC Health Services Research. 2010;10:111.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet By Martin Fortin It is known that settings affect estimation of the prevalence of multimorbidity. In a recently published paper\u00a0 [1], we have compared estimates of the prevalence of multimorbidity in the general population and in primary care clinical practices. 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