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Open AccessFactors influencing hospitalization or emergency department visits and mortality in type 2 diabetes following the onset of new cardiovascular diagnoses in a population-based study
Individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) are at increased risk of develo** cardiovascular disease (CVD) which necessitates monitoring of risk factors and appropriate pharmacotherapy. This study aimed to identi...
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Open AccessUse of potentially inappropriate medication and polypharmacy in older adults: a repeated cross-sectional study
With age, the number of chronic conditions increases along with the use of medications. For several years, polypharmacy has been found to be on the increase in western societies. Polypharmacy is associated wit...
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Open AccessStep-wise approach to prevention of chronic diseases in the Danish primary care sector with the use of a personal digital health profile and targeted follow-up – an assessment of attendance
Current evidence on chronic disease prevention suggests that interventions targeted at high-risk individuals represents the best way forward. We implemented a step-wise approach in the Danish primary care sect...
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Open AccessImpact of heart failure and other comorbidities on mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a register-based, prospective cohort study
Multimorbidity has already become common in primary care and will be a challenge in the future. Primary care in Sweden participates to a great extent in the care of patients with two severe, chronic conditions...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Impact of socioeconomic position and distance on mental health care utilization: a nationwide Danish follow-up study
In the original publication of this article, Table 3 was published incorrectly. The corrected table is shown below.
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Open AccessTargeted prevention in primary care aimed at lifestyle-related diseases: a study protocol for a non-randomised pilot study
The consequences of lifestyle-related disease represent a major burden for the individual as well as for society at large. Individual preventive health checks to the general population have been suggested as a...
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Open AccessActive listing and more consultations in primary care are associated with reduced hospitalisation in a Swedish population
Healthcare systems are complex networks where relationships affect outcomes. The importance of primary care increases while health care acknowledges multimorbidity, the impact of combinations of different dise...
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Open AccessImpact of socioeconomic position and distance on mental health care utilization: a nationwide Danish follow-up study
To determine the impact of socioeconomic position (SEP) and distance to provider on outpatient mental health care utilization among incident users of antidepressants.
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Open AccessStability of the frequent COPD exacerbator in the general population: A Danish nationwide register-based study
Exacerbation frequency is central in treatment strategies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. However, whether chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients from the general population with frequent ex...
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Open AccessHeart failure and levels of other comorbidities in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a Swedish population: a register-based study
Despite the fact that heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often exist together and have serious clinical and economic implications, they have mostly been studied separately. Our aim ...
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Open AccessResource allocation and the burden of co-morbidities among patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an observational cohort study from Danish general practice
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a leading cause of mortality, and associated with increased healthcare utilization and healthcare expenditure. In several countries, morbidity-based systems have change...
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Open AccessAssociation between age, gender and multimorbidity level and receiving home health care: a population-based Swedish study
Home health care is an important part of primary health care. How delivery of home health care is organised is probably important for sustainability of the healthcare system as a whole. More than 50 % of indiv...
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Open AccessIndication for pharmacological treatment is often lacking: a cross-sectional study on the quality of drug therapy among the elderly
Although the elderly have a substantially higher drug use than younger patients, even after adjustment for multimorbidity, there is limited knowledge about the elderly’s indication for treatment. It is essenti...
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Open AccessIs use of fall risk-increasing drugs in an elderly population associated with an increased risk of hip fracture, after adjustment for multimorbidity level: a cohort study
Risk factors for hip fracture are well studied because of the negative impact on patients and the community, with mortality in the first year being almost 30% in the elderly. Age, gender and fall risk-increasi...
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Open AccessDrugs prescribed by general practitioners according to age, gender and socioeconomic status after adjustment for multimorbidity level
Age, gender and socioeconomic status have been shown to be associated with the use of prescription drugs, even after adjustment for multimorbidity. General practitioners have a holistic and patient-centred per...
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Association between fee-for-service expenditures and morbidity burden in primary care
In primary care, fee-for-services (FFS) tariffs are often based on political negotiation rather than costing systems. The potential for comprehensive measures of patient morbidity to explain variation in negot...
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Open AccessThe PROTECCT-M study: a cohort study investigating associations between novel specific biomarkers, patient-related, healthcare system markers and the trajectory of COPD patients treated in primary care
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the most common severe chronic disease in primary care. It is typically diagnosed at a late stage, and it is also difficult to predict its trajectory and hence t...
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Open AccessCan gender difference in prescription drug use be explained by gender-related morbidity?: a study on a Swedish population during 2006
It has been reported that there is a difference in drug prescription between males and females. Even after adjustment for multi-morbidity, females tend to use more prescription drugs compared to males. In this...
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Open AccessComparing impedance cardiography and echocardiography in the assessment of reduced left ventricular systolic function
An early and accurate diagnosis of chronic heart failure is a big challenge for a general practitioner. Assessment of left ventricular function is essential for the diagnosis of heart failure and the prognosis...
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Open AccessLicit prescription drug use in a Swedish population according to age, gender and socioeconomic status after adjusting for level of multi-morbidity
There is a great variability in licit prescription drug use in the population and among patients. Factors other than purely medical ones have proven to be of importance for the prescribing of licit drugs. For ...
