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Special Collection: Impact of Comorbidity and multimorbidity on primary care

Comorbidity and multimorbidity have been shown to be associated with adverse health outcomes, such as poor quality of life, disability, psychological problems and increased mortality. They also associated with increased frequency of health-service use involving emergency hospital admission, adverse drug events, poly-pharmacy, duplicate testing and poor care co-ordination.

BMC Family Practice is pleased to present a thematic series entitled: Impact of Comorbidity and multimorbidity on primary care practice. Guest edited by our Section Editor Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham, this series examines the breadth of comorbidity and multimorbidity research and their impact on clinical practice.

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1. RESEARCH ARTICLE

   Developing a community-based psycho-social intervention with older people and third sector workers for anxiety and depression: a qualitative study

   Tom Kingstone, Heather Burroughs, Bernadette Bartlam, Mo Ray, Janine Proctor, Thomas Shepherd, Peter Bullock and Carolyn Anne Chew-Graham

   Published on: 12 July 2017
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   Blood transfusion in elderly patients with chronic anemia: a qualitative analysis of the general practitioners’ attitudes

   Sylvain Le Calvé, Dominique Somme, Joaquim Prud’homm and Aline Corvol

   Published on: 11 July 2017
3. RESEARCH ARTICLE

   Equitable resourcing of primary health care in remote communities in Australia’s Northern Territory: a pilot study

   John Wakerman, Lisa Sparrow, Susan L Thomas, John S Humphreys and Mike Jones

   Published on: 29 June 2017
4. RESEARCH ARTICLE

   Effectiveness of a motivational intervention on overweight/obese patients in the primary healthcare: a cluster randomized trial

   Juan Jose Rodriguez-Cristobal, Carlos Alonso-Villaverde, Jose Ma Panisello, Pere Travé-Mercade, Francisca Rodriguez-Cortés, Josep Ramon Marsal and Esther Peña

   Published on: 20 June 2017
5. RESEARCH ARTICLE

   Moderate mental illness as a predictor of chronic disease prevention and screening

   Ginetta Salvalaggio, Christopher Meaney, Rahim Moineddin, Eva Grunfeld and Donna Manca

   Published on: 17 June 2017

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