Multimorbidity Frameworks Impact Prevalence and Relationships with Patient‐Important Outcomes

OBJECTIVES To explore how different frameworks and categories of chronic conditions impact multimorbidity (defined as two or more chronic conditions) prevalence estimates and associations with patient‐important functional outcomes. DESIGN Baseline data from a population‐based cohort study. SETTING National sample of Canadians. PARTICIPANTS A total of 51 338 community‐living adults, aged 45 to 85 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Chronic conditions...