Stewart Mercer - ABC of Multimorbidity

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

ABC of multimorbidity / [edited by] Stewart Mercer, Chris Salisbury, Martin Fortin.

p.; cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-38388-9 (pbk.)

I. Mercer, Stewart, 1957- editor of compilation. II. Salisbury, Chris, editor of compilation. III. Fortin,

Martin, 1960- editor of compilation.

[DNLM: 1. Chronic Disease. 2. Comorbidity. 3. Primary Health Care. WT 500]

RC537

616.8527--dc23

2014003059

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1. Marjan van den Akker
2. School CAPHRI, Department of Family Medicine, Institute for Education FHML, Medical Programme, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
3. KU Leuven, Department of General Practice, Leuven, Belgium

1. Elizabeth A. Bayliss
2. Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Research, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA

1. Peter Bower
2. Centre for Primary Care, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, UK

1. Sonny Cejic
2. Department of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
3. Byron Family Medical Centre, London, ON, Canada

1. Peter Coventry
2. NIHR CLAHRC for Greater Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

1. Martin Fortin
2. Department of Family Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Centre for Health and Social Services Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada

1. Katie I. Gallacher
2. General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

1. Linda Gask
2. Centre for Primary Care, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

1. Jane Gunn
2. Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Academic Centre Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne

1. Karen Kinder
2. Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA

1. Frances Mair
2. General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

1. Carl May
2. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

1. Stewart W. Mercer
2. General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

1. Victor M. Montori
2. Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Department of Health Sciences Research and Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

1. Christiane Muth
2. Institute of General Practice, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

1. Ignacio Ricci-Cabello
2. University Institute Jordi Gol Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Barcelona, Spain
3. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola), Spain

1. Martin Roland
2. University of Cambridge, The Primary Care Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, UK

1. Chris Salisbury
2. Centre for Academic Primary Care, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

1. Efrat Shadmi
2. Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel

1. Moira Stewart
2. Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Western University, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine, London, ON, Canada