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Attitudes of multimorbid patients to surviving future acute illness and subsequent functional disability: A systematic review

2020-06-05 intensive care and critical care medicine Title + abstract only
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BACKGROUNDMultimorbid patients have worse outcomes following acute hospitalisation. These include increased mortality as an in-patient and after hospital discharge, and increased morbidity and dependence requiring greater use of care facilities. The literature is unclear on the views and wishes of multimorbid patients regarding the outcomes of acute hospitalisation, specifically regarding survival with additional functional disability following acute illness. This is increasingly relevant, with ...

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