Validity of the Chinese multimorbidity-weighted index in measuring disease burden using health check-ups data in primary care

• Main Authors: Ying-Si Lai (Author), Xin-Yuan Gao (Author), Wei-Hua Hu (Author), Yi-Xuan Liu (Author), Yong-Jin Zhang (Author), Jia-Cong Liu (Author), Chun Yang (Author), Jing Liao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background As multimorbidity becomes common that imposes a considerable burden to patients, but the extent to which widely-used multimorbidity indexes can be applied to quantify disease burden using primary care data in China is not clear. We applied the Chinese Multimorbidity-Weighted Inde...