Table of Contents

Contributors vii Preface ix Foreword xi 1 Introducing Multimorbidity 1 Martin Fortin StewartW. Mercer and Chris Salisbury 2 How Common Is Multimorbidity? 5 Marjan van den Akker and Christiane Muth 3 How Does Multimorbidity Affect Patients? 8 Elizabeth A. Bayliss 4 Effects of Multimorbidity on Healthcare Resource Use 12 Efrat Shadmi Karen Kinder and Jonathan P.Weiner 5 Multimorbidity and the Primary Care Clinic 17 Stewart W. Mercer and Chris Salisbury 6 Multimorbidity and Patient-Centred Care 22 Moira Stewart and Martin Fortin 7 Multimorbidity and the Healthcare Electronic Medical Record 26 Amanda L. Terry and Sonny Cejic 8 Treatment Burden and Multimorbidity 30 Katie I. Gallacher Victor M. Montori Carl R. May and Frances S. Mair 9 Multimorbidity and Mental Health 34 Peter Bower Peter Coventry Linda Gask and Jane Gunn 10 The Impact of Multimorbidity on Quality and Safety of Health Care 38 Jose M. Valderas Ignacio Ricci-Cabello and Concepcion Violan 11 Implications of Multimorbidity for Health Policy 41 Chris Salisbury and Martin Roland 12 Optimizing Outcomes in Multimorbidity 46 Stewart W. Mercer Martin Fortin and Chris Salisbury Index 49

About the Author

Stewart Mercer, Professor of Primary Care Research,General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health andWellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK and General Practitioner,Penicuik Health Centre, Penicuik, UK Chris Salisbury, Professor of Primary Health Care, Centrefor Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol, UK andGeneral Practitioner, William Budd Health Centre, Bristol, UK Martin Fortin, Professor of Family Medicine, Departmentof Family Medicine, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada andFamily Physician, Centre de sante et de services sociaux deChicoutimi, Canada

Reviews

This ABC series book is a practical resource that is veryuseful to all physicians, regardless of their specialty and levelof practice. Readers will find in this book information that willcontribute to improving the quality of multimorbid patient smanagement. (European Urology Today,1 October2014)