van den Bussche H, Scherer M
Institut für Allgemeinmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246, Hamburg, Deutschland.
Z Gerontol Geriatr. 2011 Dec;44 Suppl 2:73-100. doi: 10.1007/s00391-011-0249-3.
MultiCare is the acronym for a multidisciplinary and multicenter research network on multimorbidity and comorbidity in the primary care/family medicine setting, which is coordinated by the Institute of Primary Medical Care of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Multimorbidity is one of the most difficult problems in primary medical care as little is known about the interaction of several diseases in a person with regard to etiology and disease progress. Also, guidelines for the treatment of multimorbid patients are largely lacking. Therefore, the aims of the MultiCare network include: the identification of multimorbidity patterns in the elderly primary care population, analysis of incidence and prevalence and of interactions within clusters, the investigation of severity and consequences for patients, as well as trials to improve physician-patient interaction in the case of multimorbidity. During the first funding period (2008-2010) the network consisted of two observational and two interventional studies. Their results as of summer 2011 are presented in the following article.
MultiCare是一个关于基层医疗/家庭医学环境中多病共存和共病的多学科、多中心研究网络的首字母缩写，该网络由汉堡-埃彭多夫大学医学中心的基层医疗研究所协调。多病共存是基层医疗中最棘手的问题之一，因为对于一个人身上多种疾病在病因和疾病进展方面的相互作用了解甚少。此外，针对多病共存患者的治疗指南也严重缺乏。因此，MultiCare网络的目标包括：识别老年基层医疗人群中的多病共存模式，分析发病率、患病率以及集群内的相互作用，调查疾病严重程度及其对患者的影响，以及开展试验以改善多病共存情况下的医患互动。在第一个资助期（2008 - 2010年），该网络由两项观察性研究和两项干预性研究组成。截至2011年夏季的研究结果将在以下文章中呈现。
