Guideline recommended treatments in complex patients with multimorbidity.

Multimorbidity is an increasing problem for both clinicians and patients. Aging populations, the increased complexity of managing chronic illness, and the tendency of guidelines to focus on a single disease have created a “perfect storm” of treatment burden.
Muth C, Glasziou PP. Guideline recommended treatments in complex patients with multimorbidity. BMJ. 2015 Oct 2;351:h5145. Available at: http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h5145.long
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30/10/2015
Consider the following patient: “Mrs S is a 79 year old woman with osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who takes 12 separate drugs in 19 doses five times during a typical day.
Muth C, Glasziou PP.
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