tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:" Comparative assessment of three different indices of multimorbidity for studies on health-related quality of life"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : Comparative assessment of three different indices of multimorbidity for studies on health-related quality of life | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Comparative assessment of three different indices of multimorbidity for studies on health-related quality of life Martin Fortin 1 2 Catherine Hudon1 2 Marie-France Dubois3 4 José Almirall2 Lise Lapointe2 and Hassan Soubhi1 2 Open Access Address Department of Family Medicine Sherbrooke University Sherbrooke Que Canada 2Centre de Santé et de Services Sociaux de Chicoutimi Que Canada 3Department of Community Health Sciences Sherbrooke University Sherbrooke Que Canada and 4Research Center on Aging Sherbrooke University Geriatric Institute Sherbrooke Que Canada Email Martin Fortin - Catherine Hudon - hudonard@ Marie-France Dubois - José Almirall - Jose_Almirall@ Lise Lapointe - Hassan Soubhi - Corresponding author Published 23 November 2005 Received 29 September 2005 . J .. 11OZ I 7 vnr 7 Accepted 23 November 2005 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2005 3 74 doi 1477-7525-3-74 This article is available from http content 3 1 74 2005 Fortin et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Measures of multimorbidity are often applied to source data populations or outcomes outside the scope of their original developmental work. As the development of a multimorbidity measure is influenced by the population and outcome used these influences should be taken into account when selecting a multimorbidity index. The aim of this study was to compare the strength of the association of health-related quality of life HRQOL with three multimorbidity indices the