Age | Quantitative years |
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Sex | Categorical male/female |
Immobilization | Qualitative yes/no, considered as spending most of the time in bed or having considerable difficulty in moving around (which prevents them from leaving their home, except in exceptional cases) for any reason and who foreseeable duration of this difficulty is greater than two months |
Institutionalization | Qualitative yes/no, considered as staying in nursing home/retirement home |
Primary caregiver | Qualitative yes/no, considered as having a caregiver at home |
Home support | Qualitative yes/no |
Receiving palliative care | Qualitative yes/no |
Risk level by AMG | Qualitative low/medium/high |
Complexity index by AMG | Quantitative numerical value of patient complexity assigned by AMG which is an index measured as a function of morbidity and health service utilization |
Multimorbidity | Qualitative yes/no considered as the simultaneous presence of 2 or more chronic conditions in a patient that require a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach [23,24,25] |
Chronic conditions (presented in Additional File 1). | Qualitative yes/no |
Polymedication | Qualitative yes/no, considered as patients with medication regimen that implies having been prescribed five or more medications for their chronic conditions as a reference treatment |
Death | Qualitative yes/no |