Multimorbidity in Hospitalized Patients Admitted to General Practice Departments and Its Implications for the General Practice Healthcare System: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study in China

• Main Authors: Zhihan Zhou (Author), Meng Shi (Author), Mengzhu Liu (Author), Jianqin Gu (Author), Clifford Silver Tarimo (Author), Jian Wu (Author), Yudong Miao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: China and many developing countries has placed high expectations on the general practice healthcare system in terms of lowering medical costs and improving the health status of the multimorbid population in recent years. However, the prevalence of multimorbidity among inpatients attending...