CONTEXT The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends annual influenza vaccination for children with certain chronic medical conditions to prevent serious complications of influenza infection. Little is known about the relative contribution of each of these chronic medical conditions to the development of serious influenza-associated complications. OBJECTIVE To identify c...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services vision and strategic framework on multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) incorporates recommendations designed to facilitate research that will improve our knowledge about interventions and systems that will benefit individuals with MCCs (or multimorbidity). The evidence base supporting the management of patients with MCCs will be built through inter...

prevalence of chronic disease could be adversely having an effect on the capability of the driver. in addition, it must increase probability of accidents. the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between chronic medical conditions and contribution in crashes among drivers. in this cross-sectional study, the populations were professional truck drivers. the numbers of 323 people were...

BACKGROUND Depression concomitant with chronic medical conditions is common and burdensome in primary care. OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of practice-based interventions for improving depression and chronic medical outcomes. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, Embase, the Cochrane Library, CINAHL, and PsycINFO from inception to June 11, 2012. STUDY SELECTION, APPRAISAL, AND SYNTHESIS Two review...

Among the 21st century's major emerging health issues, one of the most critical is the increasing prevalence of individuals with comorbidities, or multiple chronic conditions (MCCs), and the myriad challenges this poses for public health, healthcare, social services, and other sectors. Given the increasing prevalence of individuals with MCCs and the paramount role of MCCs as a healthcare cost d...

OBJECTIVE To characterise in details a random sample of multimorbid patients in Switzerland and to evaluate the clustering of chronic conditions in that sample. METHODS 100 general practitioners (GPs) each enrolled 10 randomly selected multimorbid patients aged ≥18 years old and suffering from at least three chronic conditions. The prevalence of 75 separate chronic conditions from the Interna...

BACKGROUND Prevalence estimates of chronic medical conditions and their multiples (multimorbidity) in the general population are scarce and often rather speculative in Switzerland. Using complementary data sources, we assessed estimates validity of population-based prevalence rates of four common chronic medical conditions with high impact on cardiovascular health (diabetes mellitus, hypertensi...

Written by a GP who has an extensive background in medical education, this book focuses on chronic disease management rather than how chronic conditions affect health.

INTRODUCTION This study sought to examine medical expenditures among non-institutionalized adults in the United States with one or more chronic conditions. METHOD Using data from the 2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC), we explored total and out-of-pocket medical, hospital, physician office, and prescription drug expenditures for non-institutionalized adults ...