The concept of disease has traditionally been representing the main focus of medicine and center of care.
In fact, the clinical decision process largely relies on the diagnosis, treatment,
and prevention of the individual's nosological conditions [
[1]
]. Nowadays, such paradigm tends to growingly seem inadequate. In fact, the aging
of the population renders quite unusual the manifestation of a standalone disease,
whereas the condition of multimorbidity (i.e., the co-occurrence of multiple diseases in one same person) becomes the normality
[
[2]
].- Vetrano D.L.
- Calderón-Larrañaga A.
- Marengoni A.
- Onder G.
- Bauer J.M.
- Cesari M.
- et al.
An international perspective on chronic multimorbidity: approaching the elephant in
the room.
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. Sep 16 2017; https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glx178
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Publication history
Published online: April 04, 2018
Accepted:
March 26,
2018
Received:
March 23,
2018
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