Comorbidity: Implications for the Importance of Primary Care in 'Case' Management
Open Access
- 1 May 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 1 (1), 8-14
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1
Abstract
BACKGROUND Although comorbidity is very common in the population, little is known about the types of health service that are used by people with comorbid conditions.Keywords
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