Cohort profile: The prospective study on Chinese elderly with multimorbidity in primary care in Hong Kong

What is it about?

Strengths and limitations of this study
•	The study examines biopsychosocial health problems encountered by Chinese elderly with multimorbidity in a primary care program in Hong Kong. The results were weighted according to the census data. The information could be helpful to healthcare providers, policy makers and researchers. 
•	The data could be linked with health electronic records to allow follow up and examination of long-term outcomes associated with multimorbidity. 
•	The limitation was that older adult patients who were male, disabled, very ill, institutionalized, or house-bounded were less likely to have participated in this study; and a few assessments were only conducted within subgroups or added at a later stage. The weighted rates might be an underestimation of the rates among the primary care patients and be close to the rates of the general population.

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