Report for: Does Multimorbidity Influence the Occurrence Rates of Chronic Conditions? A Claims Data Based Comparison of Expected and Observed Prevalence Rates

Title	Does Multimorbidity Influence the Occurrence Rates of Chronic Conditions? A Claims Data Based Comparison of Expected and Observed Prevalence Rates
Published in	PLOS ONE, September 2012
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0045390
Pubmed ID	23028979
Authors	Ingmar Schäfer
Abstract	Multimorbidity is a complex phenomenon with an almost endless number of possible disease combinations with unclear implications. One important aspect in analyzing the clustering of diseases is to distinguish between random coexistence and statistical dependency. We developed a model to account for random coexistence based on stochastic distribution. We analyzed if the number of diseases of the patients influences the occurrence rates of chronic conditions.

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Student > Ph. D. Student	10	16%
Student > Master	7	11%
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Other	13	21%
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Other	8	13%
Unknown	12	20%

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