ABC of Multimorbidity

Stewart Mercer, Professor of Primary Care Research, General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK and General Practitioner, Penicuik Health Centre, Penicuik, UKChris Salisbury, Professor of Primary Health Care, Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol, UK and General Practitioner, William Budd Health Centre, Bristol, UKMartin Fortin, Professor of Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada and Family Physician, Centre de santé et de services sociaux de Chicoutimi, Canada

• Contributors viiPreface ixForeword xi1 Introducing Multimorbidity 1Martin Fortin StewartW. Mercer and Chris Salisbury2 How Common Is Multimorbidity? 5Marjan van den Akker and Christiane Muth3 How Does Multimorbidity Affect Patients? 8Elizabeth A. Bayliss4 Effects of Multimorbidity on Healthcare Resource Use 12Efrat Shadmi Karen Kinder and Jonathan P.Weiner5 Multimorbidity and the Primary Care Clinic 17Stewart W. Mercer and Chris Salisbury6 Multimorbidity and Patient-Centred Care 22Moira Stewart and Martin Fortin7 Multimorbidity and the Healthcare Electronic Medical Record 26Amanda L. Terry and Sonny Cejic8 Treatment Burden and Multimorbidity 30Katie I. Gallacher Victor M. Montori Carl R. May and Frances S. Mair9 Multimorbidity and Mental Health 34Peter Bower Peter Coventry Linda Gask and Jane Gunn10 The Impact of Multimorbidity on Quality and Safety of Health Care 38Jose M. Valderas Ignacio Ricci-Cabello and Concepción Violán11 Implications of Multimorbidity for Health Policy 41Chris Salisbury and Martin Roland12 Optimizing Outcomes in Multimorbidity 46Stewart W. Mercer Martin Fortin and Chris SalisburyIndex 49

“This ABC series book is a practical resource that is very useful to all physicians, regardless of their specialty and level of practice. Readers will find in this book information that will contribute to improving the quality of multimorbid patient’s management.”  (European Urology Today,1 October 2014)