Association between the Chinese Multimorbidity-weighted Index and Health Service Utilization among the Elderly in China

Background Multimorbidity pose challenges to older adults' health services. It is of great importance to explore its impact on health services utilization in the elderly. The Chinese Multimorbidity-Weighted Index (CMWI) has been developed to measure the burden of multimorbidity in Chinese middl...

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Published inZhongguo quanke yixue Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 65 - 70
Main Author LI Liping, LIAO Jing, GAO Xinyuan, WANG Li, LAI Yingsi
Format Journal Article
LanguageChinese
Published Chinese General Practice Publishing House Co., Ltd 01.01.2025
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multimorbidity|aged|health services|negative binomial regression|chinese multimorbidity-weighted index
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Summary:Background Multimorbidity pose challenges to older adults' health services. It is of great importance to explore its impact on health services utilization in the elderly. The Chinese Multimorbidity-Weighted Index (CMWI) has been developed to measure the burden of multimorbidity in Chinese middle-aged and elderly, but there is a lack of cohort studies on the association between CMWI and health service utilization. Objective To explore the association between burden of multimorbidity and utilization of health among older adults, which provides scientific evidence for improving the intervention and management of older adults' patients with multimorbidity. Methods From December 2021 to January 2024, taking Sihui City of Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province as an example, the electronic health records of residents from 2017 to 2021 were collected from the city's national health information platform to establish a natural population cohort for health examination of the elderly. We used the time of the first health exa
ISSN:1007-9572
DOI:10.12114/j.issn.1007-9572.2023.0713