Increasing multimorbidity in an Australian street health service: A 10-year retrospective cohort study
| Autor: | Wendy Chan She Ping-Delfos, Tom Brett, Elizabeth Geelhoed, David B. Preen, Cecily Strange, Lakkhina Troeung, Diane Arnold-Reed, Colleen Fisher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty MEDLINE Ambulatory Care Facilities Cohort Studies 030207 dermatology & venereal diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Rating scale Medicine Electronic Health Records Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Aged Retrospective Studies Primary Health Care business.industry Medical record Australia Patient Acuity Multimorbidity Retrospective cohort study Odds ratio Middle Aged Confidence interval Ill-Housed Persons Female business Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Australian journal of general practice. 47(4) |
| ISSN: | 2208-7958 |
| Popis: | Background and objectives Street-based clinics provide general practice services to marginalised and homeless persons. The objective of this study was to examine prevalence, patterns and severity of multimorbidity in patients attending one such service. Method A retrospective cohort study (2006–15), comprising medical record review of patients (n = 4285), was undertaken. A Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (CIRS) was used to assess multimorbidity. Results Average age of patients was 38.2 ± 17.9 years. Of 31.5% Aboriginal patients, 50.8% were female (37.6% in non Aboriginal patients). Of all patients, 53% had multimorbidity. Aboriginal patients had higher rates of multimorbidity than non-Aboriginal patients (58.0% vs 50.6%, P |
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