Multimorbidity in Patients Enrolled in a Community-Based Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programme Delivered through Primary Care
| العنوان: | Multimorbidity in Patients Enrolled in a Community-Based Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programme Delivered through Primary Care |
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| المؤلفون: | Lakkhina Troeung, Jasmine O'Neill, Rupert Backhouse, Diane Arnold-Reed, Tom Brett, Max Bulsara |
| المصدر: | Journal of Comorbidity, Vol 4 (2014) Journal of Comorbidity |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Publishing, 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Methadone maintenance, medicine.medical_specialty, lcsh:Medicine, primary care, Rating scale, Internal medicine, Severity of illness, mental disorders, medicine, severity of illness index, drug abuse, business.industry, lcsh:R, Multimorbidity, Retrospective cohort study, medicine.disease, Comorbidity, Confidence interval, Substance abuse, Cumulative Illness Rating Scale, methadone maintenance treatment, Cohort, Physical therapy, Original Article, business, chronic disease |
| الوصف: | Background Multimorbidity, the co-existence of two or more (2+) long-term conditions in an individual, is common among problem drug abusers. Objective To delineate the patterns, multimorbidity prevalence, and disease severity in patients enrolled in a community-based primary care methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programme. Design This was a retrospective cohort study ( n=274). The comparator group consisted of mainstream primary care patients. Electronic medical record assessment was performed using the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale. Results Prevalence of multimorbidity across 2+ domains was significantly higher within the MMT sample at 88.7% (243/274) than the comparator sample at 51.8% (142/274), pConclusions Prevalence of multimorbidity and disease severity in MMT patients was greater than in the age- and sex-matched comparators. Patients with a history of drug abuse require co-ordinated care for treatment of their addiction, and to manage and prevent chronic illnesses. Community-based programmes delivered through primary care help fulfil this need. |
| اللغة: | English |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::30fc840184ce5030359acf69ac094a01Test https://doaj.org/article/84efc118621f4c68bb3df5426ebc7296Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....30fc840184ce5030359acf69ac094a01 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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