Is consensus attainable on the definition of multiple long term conditions?

Multimorbidity, better referred to as multiple long term conditions (MLTC),1 is a rapidly growing research area of clinical medicine and offers the potential for new insights into disease causation, prevention, treatment, and health service design.234 Despite its seemingly straightforward definition, the term has inspired a wealth of literature, highlighting the motivation and the challenges of reaching a consensus definition of MLTC in the research community.5 MLTC has value primarily in the conceptual framework it provides, rather than as a diagnostic label, and achieving a universally agreed and rigid definition may be a goal that is both an unattainable and undesirable.MLTC is mostly agreed to refer to a person with two or more (usually chronic) conditions, but within its definition the constituent conditions are unspecified.5 A systematic review in 2021 identified more than 550 studies of MLTC including a range from two to 285 separate conditions in their measures, with only…
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