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Table 1 Topics, Themes and design ranked by participants’ votes

From: What research agenda could be generated from the European General Practice Research Network concept of Multimorbidity in Family Practice?

Topics, themes and designs for multimorbidity Agenda

Topics

Themes

Study design formats

Points per theme

Points per topic

Measuring multimorbidity

Developing or finding measurement tool of multimorbidity

Expert consensus and cross sectional

31

49

Epidemiology of Multimorbidity

Expert consensus or cross sectional or cohort

18

Impact of (or on) Multimorbidity

Impact of multimorbidity on frailty or health outcomes, or cost of care, or health service utilization, or depression.

Cohort

38

40

Impact of socioeconomic status on multimorbidity

Cross sectional or cohort

2

Management of multimorbidity

Multimorbidity management in General Practice

Expert consensus or cross sectional

16

24

Patient Doctor relationship evaluation in the management of multimorbidity

Cross sectional

5

FP workload and burden of multimorbidity

Cross sectional

3

Patient perspective

Multimorbid patient's perspective

Qualitative study (semi directed interviews or focus groups)

8

13

Burden of diseases effect on multimorbidity from patient’s perspective

Qualitative study and expert consensus

5

Links between complexity and multimorbidity

Multimorbidity definition as a help to detect complexity

Cross sectional

6

6

Stakeholders’ perspective

Consensus for multimorbidity research according to stakeholders’ interest

Expert consensus

3

3

Total votes

  

135

135

  1. Experts had 9 points to allocate (5 for their first top theme, 3 for the second, 1 for the third). They were 15 experts with a maximum of 135 points to allocate. Top three research themes are the first three. All the others are secondary research themes