Research Article: Generating Items for Measuring Needs-Based Quality of Life and Self-Perceived Health Inequity in Patients with Multimorbidity: Development of the MultiMorbidity Questionnaire (MMQ)
Introduction:
An increasing number of patients live with multimorbidity, most often described as the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions in one individual. – Multimorbidity is a burden both to society and the individual patient. – Patients struggle to handle the complexities of symptoms, diagnoses, and information, which leads to an increase in the burden of disease and treatment as well as to a lower self-reported quality of life (QoL). – Epidemiologically, it is well-known that disease and treatment burden affects…
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