Stroke, multimorbidity and polypharmacy in a nationally representative sample of 1,424,378 patients in Scotland: implications for treatment burden

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of multimorbidity (the presence of two or more long-term conditions) is rising internationally. Multimorbidity affects patients by increasing their burden of symptoms, but is also likely to increase the self-care demands, or treatment burden, that they experience. Treatmen...

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Main Authors: Gallacher, Katie I. (Author), Batty, G. (Author), McLean, Gary (Author), Mercer, Stewart W. (Author), Guthrie, Bruce (Author), May, Carl R. (Author), Langhorne, Peter (Author), Mair, Frances S. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: 2014-10-03.
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