Patterns of Multimorbidity and Differences in Healthcare Utilization and Complexity Among Acutely Hospitalized Medical Patients (≥65 Years) - A Latent Class Approach.
Helle Gybel Juul-LarsenLine Due ChristensenThomas BandholmOve AndersenThomas KallemoseLillian Mørch JørgensenJanne PetersenPublished in: Clinical epidemiology (2020)
Our study showed that chronic conditions cluster together and that these patterns differ in healthcare utilization and complexity. Patterns of multimorbidity have the potential to be used in epidemiological studies of healthcare planning but should be confirmed in other population-based studies.