6 January 2020

Rising to the challenge of multimorbidity

Rising to the challenge of multimorbidity
BMJ 2020;368:l6964. 6 January 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6964
  • Written by Christopher J M Whitty, chief medical officer for England among others, this editorial discusses need to move from thinking about multimorbidity as a random assortment of individual conditions to recognising it as a series of largely predictable clusters of disease in the same person and the need to develop clinicians who can deal with patients with multiple diseases.