Association of in-hospital multimorbidity with healthcare outcomes in Swiss medical inpatients.

CONCLUSIONS: Multimorbidity is highly prevalent in medical inpatients and has a relevant association with poor healthcare outcomes. Further investigation is needed to specify risk factors as well as to optimise the management of multimorbid patients to improve outcomes.
PMID: 33578431 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - February 1, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Müller M, Huembein M, Baechli C, Wagner U, Schuetz P, Mueller B, Kutz A Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research