Multimorbidity and the inverse care law in primary care

The inverse care law

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The Royal College of General Practitioners

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Epidemiology and impact of multimorbidity in primary care: a retrospective cohort study

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The Inverse Care Law: Clinical Primary Care Encounters in Deprived and Affluent Areas of Scotland

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Multimorbidity - not just an older person's issue. Results from an Australian biomedical study

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Inequitable distribution of general practitioners in Australia: estimating need through the Robin Hood Index

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Allocation of NHS resources: are some patients more equal than others?

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Challenges of managing people with multimorbidity in today’s healthcare systems

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Planning and Evaluating Remote Consultation Services: A New Conceptual Framework Incorporating Complexity and Practical Ethics

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The contribution of risk factors to socioeconomic inequalities in multimorbidity across the lifecourse: a longitudinal analysis of the Twenty-07 cohort

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Patterns of multimorbid health conditions: a systematic review of analytical methods and comparison analysis

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Better management of patients with multimorbidity

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Managing patients with mental and physical multimorbidity

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The CARE Plus study – a whole-system intervention to improve quality of life of primary care patients with multimorbidity in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial and cost-utility analysis

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General Practitioners’ Empathy and Health Outcomes: A Prospective Observational Study of Consultations in Areas of High and Low Deprivation

Mercer, S. W., Higgins, M., Bikker, A. M., Fitzpatrick, B., McConnachie, A., Lloyd, S. M., Little, P. S., & Watt, G. C. M. (2016) · The Annals of Family Medicine · doi:10.1370/afm.1910 · Cited by 140 · see citing works

Does the chronic care model meet the emerging needs of people living with multimorbidity? A systematic review and thematic synthesis

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Self Reported Childhood Difficulties, Adult Multimorbidity and Allostatic Load. A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Norwegian HUNT Study

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Primary health care and sustainable development goals

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Living with complexity; marshalling resources: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis of lived experience of mental and physical multimorbidity

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General practice funding underpins the persistence of the inverse care law: cross-sectional study in Scotland

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Generalist solutions to complex problems: generating practice-based evidence - the example of managing multi-morbidity

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Observational cohort study: deprivation and access to anti-dementia drugs in the UK

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Prevalence of Combined Somatic and Mental Health Multimorbidity: Patterns by Age, Sex, and Race/Ethnicity

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Multimorbidity and Socioeconomic Deprivation in Primary Care Consultations

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Multimorbidity Patterns in the General Population: Results from the EpiChron Cohort Study

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What is Important to Older People with Multimorbidity and Their Caregivers? Identifying Attributes of Person Centered Care from the User Perspective

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Prevalence of multimorbidity according to the deprivation level among the elderly in the Basque Country

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The ‘Everyday Work’ of Living with Multimorbidity in Socioeconomically Deprived Areas of Scotland

O’Brien, R., Wyke, S., Guthrie, B., Watt, G. C. M., & Mercer, S. W. (2014) · Journal of Comorbidity · doi:10.15256/joc.2014.4.32 · Cited by 58 · see citing works

Why do patients with multimorbidity in England report worse experiences in primary care? Evidence from the General Practice Patient Survey

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Merging current healthcare trends: innovative perspective in aging care

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Influence of patient multimorbidity on GP burnout: a survey and register-based study in Danish general practice

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Multimorbidity and Its Patterns according to Immigrant Origin. A Nationwide Register-Based Study in Norway

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Factors associated with multimorbidity and its link with poor blood pressure control among 223,286 hypertensive patients

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Comparison of French training and non-training general practices: a cross-sectional study

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Multimorbidity and immigrant status: associations with area of origin and length of residence in host country

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Multimorbidity Among Urban Poor in India: Findings From LASI, Wave-1

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Protocol: Remote care as the ‘new normal’? Multi-site case study in UK general practice

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Leadership for careful and kind care

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The Quality and Outcomes Framework--where next?

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Mapping of global scientific research in comorbidity and multimorbidity: A cross-sectional analysis

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Lived experiences of multimorbidity: An interpretative meta-synthesis of patients’, general practitioners’ and trainees’ perceptions

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Perceived Value of eHealth among People Living with Multimorbidity: A Qualitative Study

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Primary and secondary care service use and costs associated with frailty in an ageing population: longitudinal analysis of an English primary care cohort of adults aged 50 and over, 2006–2017

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Providing care to vulnerable populations: a qualitative study among GPs working in deprived areas in Montreal, Canada

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Remote primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic for people experiencing homelessness: a qualitative study

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Virtual Care and the Inverse Care Law: Implications for Policy, Practice, Research, Public and Patients

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The development and optimisation of a primary care-based whole system complex intervention (CARE Plus) for patients with multimorbidity living in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation

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Co- and multimorbidity patterns in an unselected Norwegian population: cross-sectional analysis based on the HUNT Study and theoretical reflections concerning basic medical models

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Multilevel Analysis of the Patterns of Physical-Mental Multimorbidity in General Population of São Paulo Metropolitan Area, Brazil

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Follow-up care delivery in community-based hypertension and type 2 diabetes management: a multi-centre, survey study among rural primary care physicians in China

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Improving Outcomes through Transformational Health and Social Care Integration – The Scottish Experience

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Are the needs of people with multiple long-term conditions being met? Evidence from the 2018 General Practice Patient Survey

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Primary care and health inequality: Difference-in-difference study comparing England and Ontario

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Cardiometabolic multimorbidity and associated patterns of healthcare utilization and quality of life: Results from the Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE) Wave 2 in Ghana

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Linkage of national health and social care data: a cross-sectional study of multimorbidity and social care use in people aged over 65 years in Scotland

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A paradox of problems in accessing general practice: a qualitative participatory case study

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Multimorbidity Development in Working People

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Depression, Deprivation, and Dysbiosis: Polyiatrogenesis in Multiple Chronic Illnesses

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Influences of socioeconomic deprivation on GPs’ decisions to refer patients to cardiology: a qualitative study

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Coping with Complexity: Working beyond the Guidelines for Patients with Multimorbidities

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Exploring GP work in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: a secondary analysis

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Chronic care services and variation between Danish general practices: a nationwide cohort study

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Influence of social determinants of health on quality of life in patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy

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Multimorbidity and chronic diseases among undocumented migrants: evidence to contradict the myths

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A systematic review of disability, rehabilitation and lifestyle services in rural and remote Australia through the lens of the people-centred health care

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Medicine on the margins. An innovative GP training programme prepares GPs for work with underserved communities

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Improving Osteoporosis Management in Primary Care: An Audit of the Impact of a Community Based Fracture Liaison Nurse

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Current practice of usual clinic blood pressure measurement in people with and without diabetes: a survey and prospective ‘mystery shopper’ study in UK primary care

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Rethinking how we understand individual healthcare needs for people living with long-term conditions: a qualitative study

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Integrative hospital treatment in older patients to benchmark and improve outcome and length of stay – the In-HospiTOOL study

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Economic inequalities in burden of illness, diagnosis and treatment of five long-term conditions in England: panel study

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De la maladie chronique à la multimorbidité : quel impact sur l’organisation des soins de santé ?

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Moving from “let’s fix them” to “actually listen”: the development of a primary care intervention for mental-physical multimorbidity

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GP speciality training in areas of deprivation: factors influencing engagement. A qualitative study

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Development and validation of a score to assess complexity of general internal medicine patients at hospital discharge: a prospective cohort study

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Risk of intracranial haemorrhage linked to co-treatment with antidepressants and NSAIDs

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Effect of Patient Support Groups for Hypertension on Blood Pressure among Patients with and Without Multimorbidity: Findings from a Cohort Study of Patients on a Home-Based Self-Management Program in Kenya

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Web-Based Patient Segmentation in Finnish Primary Care: Protocol for Clinical Validation of the Navigator Service in Patients With Diabetes

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Who attends Dunedin's free clinic? A study of patients facing cost barriers to primary health care access

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Effect of Family Practice Contract Services on the Perceived Quality of Primary Care among Patients with Multimorbidity: A Cross-Sectional Study in Guangdong, China

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Reducing health inequalities through general practice: a realist review and action framework

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Development and Validation of Population Clusters for Integrating Health and Social Care: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study in Multiple Long-Term Conditions (Cluster-Artificial Intelligence for Multiple Long-Term Conditions)

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