Inside the Teams That Keep High-Risk Patients Out of the Hospital
A multisite VA evaluation finds that intensive primary care teams perform care coordination activities that map cleanly onto all nine ...
Tag: Multimorbidity
Why Asking Patients What Matters Most Could Fix Fragmented Care
Researchers argue that clarifying what matters most to patients with multiple chronic conditions should come first in shared decision-making, especially ...
When Mind and Body Break Down Together: The Deadly Math of Multimorbidity
For millions of older adults, the road to losing independence rarely begins with a single dramatic event. It begins quietly, ...
Wrecked Bodies, Specialist Wards: What Patients With Multiple Conditions Really Experience in Hospital
A qualitative study of 44 NHS patients with multiple long-term conditions reveals how specialist hospital systems, resource constraints and misaligned ...
Inside the Hospital Front Line: How Staff Make Split-Second Decisions for Patients With Multiple Chronic Diseases
A qualitative study of 40 UK hospital staff reveals how clinicians navigate uncertainty when treating patients with multiple long-term conditions, ...
Hidden Patient Profiles Revealed Behind Serious Bleeding After Dental Surgery
A German retrospective study of 700 hospitalized patients used latent class analysis to identify five multimorbidity profiles among patients who ...
Which Chronic Disease Combinations Raise Dementia Risk? New Study Points to Diabetes and Ear Disease
A community-based study of 2,458 older adults in China finds that suspected dementia is linked not just to individual chronic ...
Where Survivors Live Shapes Their Health: Neighborhood Risks Doubled for Childhood Cancer Survivors
A St. Jude study of childhood cancer survivors finds that living in vulnerable neighborhoods with poor walkability, limited healthcare access, ...
Where Survivors Live Shapes How Fast Their Health Fails, Landmark Study Finds
A St. Jude cohort study of 2,508 adult childhood cancer survivors finds that living in disadvantaged neighborhoods roughly doubles the ...
Machine learning maps England’s costliest patients into nine distinct groups
A machine learning analysis of over ten million English adults shows the top one percent of patients by cost account ...
Air Pollution Mixtures Linked to Heart, Liver and Metabolic Disease Clusters in Older Adults
A prospective Chinese cohort study links long-term exposure to mixtures of common air pollutants with the new onset of combined ...
Scientists Design a Diet That Slows Epigenetic Aging by Nearly Four Years
A new data-driven dietary index built around epigenetic aging clocks is associated with nearly four years slower biological aging, lower ...
Chronic Kidney Disease Drains Irish Hospitals of €320 Million in a Single Year
A national analysis of all Irish hospital discharges in 2022 found that chronic kidney disease drove more than 35,000 admissions, ...
Europe’s Older Adults Face a Care Divide as Geriatricians and Psychiatrists Unite
A joint European task force of geriatricians and psychiatrists warns that fragmented physical and mental healthcare is shortening the lives ...
Short Sleep and Too Little Exercise May Reshape How Chronic Diseases Cluster Together
A study of over 18,000 Chinese adults links short sleep and insufficient physical activity to higher multimorbidity odds and distinct ...
One in 100 US Adults Over 40 Reports a Dementia Diagnosis, National Survey Finds
A nationally representative US survey of more than 130,000 adults finds that 1.6 percent of people aged 40 to 85 ...
Body Roundness Index Predicts Progression of Heart, Kidney and Metabolic Disease
A large UK Biobank study using multistate models found that a high body roundness index strongly predicts the onset of ...
Landmark Study of 10.7 Million Adults Maps Thyroid Dysfunction Across China
A nationwide analysis of over 10.7 million Chinese adults reveals that subclinical hypothyroidism affects 8.27 percent of the population and ...
Deaths Involving Both Alzheimer’s and Cancer Decline Slightly Yet Grow in Number Among Older Americans
A 25-year national analysis finds that age-adjusted U.S. death rates involving both Alzheimer's disease and cancer among adults aged 65 ...
Hospital Care Gap Narrows for China’s Chronically Ill Older Adults, Decade of Data Shows
A decade-long analysis of Chinese national survey data finds that income-related inequality in hospital care among middle-aged and older adults ...
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