Diseases

Multiple Chronic Conditions

Two or more concurrent chronic physical, mental, or behavioral health problems in an individual.

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Structured Summary

Abstract

Two or more concurrent chronic physical, mental, or behavioral health problems in an individual.

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Synonyms

5 entry terms
  • Multiple Chronic Health Conditions
  • Multiple Chronic Illnesses
  • Multiple Chronic Medical Conditions
  • Chronic Conditions, Multiple
  • Chronic Illnesses, Multiple

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Aspects Covered

11 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, drug therapy, economics, epidemiology, ethnology, mortality, nursing, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, therapy.

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History Note

2017

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Previous Indexing

  • Chronic Disease (2008-2016)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. C23.550.291.500w.500w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Multiple Chronic Conditions. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000071069. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000071069
  2. Multiple Chronic Conditions. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimorbidity
  3. Multiple Chronic Conditions. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1952420